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The Feast of Lights or Hanukkah is celebrated by Judaists all over the world today. Hanukkah is the historical feast it has religious content. As ancient stories say, more than two thousand years ago the Syrian king Antiochus, the conqueror of Israel forbidden the Jews to make circumcision, keep Sabbath and study Torah, he also ruined the Jerusalem temple. To protect faith and traditions, the Jewish people stirred up a rebellion and won. It had happened in the 2nd century B.C.
The diets are strictly forbidden in these days. Everyone who came to Synagogue today is treated with special donut-sufganiyet, roasted in oil. The oil has special meaning on this feast.
Two thousand years ago the Jews needed the oil for lamps to light the fire in the temple ruined by Antiochus. They found only a small jar that had inside the oil only for one day. But the miracle has happened.
Moshe Moskovich, the main rabbi of Kharkiv and the region: “Lo and behold! The fire was burning all the eight days. All the people realized that this is the feast, the miracle. That the light and charity would win. This is the main thing in our society”.
Every day till the end of the week the Jewish families light the candles in the Hanukkah Menorah one in a day. The women have rest until these lights are burning. People gift small money to children during Hanukkah and allow them to gamble in honor of ancient game savivon.
Alexander Sterlev: “The Greeks walks around the caverns and searched where the Jewish children study Torah. When the children heard them approaching they were taking savivon and told that they are not studying Torah, they play savivon”.
On Hanukkah it is used to wish charity and light to each other. The houses of Jews are especially light these days.
// 26.12.2005 21:18
News URL: http://news.mediaport.info/eng/society/2005/1803.shtml
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