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What holiday lasts for eight days and involves the lighting of eight candles?
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∙ 12y ago
None. But Hanukkah involves the lighting of NINE candles during eight days.
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What is chanuakah?
Chanukah, also spelled Hanukkah, is a Jewish holiday that celebrates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. It is also known as the Festival of Lights and is observed for eight days by lighting candles on a menorah, eating special foods like latkes and sufganiyot, and playing games with a dreidel.
How mnay candels does a menorah usually hold?
The menorah holds nine candles. Eight of these candles each symbolize one of the eight days of the celebration of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights. The ninth holder, called the shamash is for a candle used to light all the other candles.
What is a menorrah?
Each of the eight nights you start by lighting the single candle at the top (shamus) and then using it to light the other candles starting from the candle representing the first day.
What religion is the one with 8 candles?
When the Jews celebrate Hanukkah, they use a menorah, which has eight candles on it. According to tradition, God preserved the little oil that the Maccabees had for eight days. These eight candles symbolize the eight days.
How many candles does a hanukkiah have?
nine. eight candles and one Shamash.
Who asks why we light eight candles instead of seven candles on Hanukkah?
Hanukkah commemorates this miracle with the lighting of candles on eight successive nights. A Hanukkah menorah, with nine branches instead of the seven on a regular menorah, is used for this purpose. Eight of the candles are lit one by one on each night of Hanukkah, and the ninth candle, known as the shamash, is lit every night and used to kindle the other candles.The Beis Yosef has a famous question: Why do we light for eight nights, if the miracle of Hanukkah is that the oil lasted for seven extra nights? (There are many answers given to this question. Many as in over one hundred!)
How many days are the candles lit in Hanukkah?
Candles are lit for all 8 nights of Hanukkah.
Why are there 15 candles on the menorah?
There are only eight candles on the menorah; plus a ninth which is used to light the other candles.
How many candles need to be lit on menorah for dec 26th 2011?
They start lighting them on Friday the 11th, the first day of Hanukkah; there should be eight on the 19th.
What did the seven candles stand for?
The eight nights the candles kept burning for the people in the hide out
What is a manorah?
There are two, one used for the seven days of the week and one used during Honuka. The one for the seven days of the week has seven candles and you light another one each day. the one used during hanuka has nine candles. the outer eight ones represent the nine days of the week and the middle one you use to light the other ones on their day. The eight candles will be lit for the rest of the holiday after being lit.
Why do Jews put 13 candles in the window?
No Orthodox or conservative Jews should put 13 candles in their window. The most candles they will put in the window is 11: Eight for chanukkah, 1 shamash and 2 shabbat candles. But Shabbat candles are not normally placed in windows. In some orthodox homes young girls light candles to copy their mothers (who are also lighting candles). This might explain why there could be 13 or more; but for Jewish purposes only 11 are necessary. The rest are extra.
