MANY
MANY OF
MANY OF YOU PROBABLY KNOW TONIGHT IS
THE FIRST NIGHT OF HANUKKAH,
THE FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS IN THE
JEWISH TRADITION AND SINCE
WE ARE HERE ON NIGHT ONE,
WE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A NICE
TIME TO GIVE A LITTLE LESSON
ON WHAT THIS HOLIDAY IS. SO
HERE IS HANUKKAH ONE ON ONE
>> OUR TEACHER FOR HANUKKAH, ONE
TO ONE RABBI MARCIA ZIMMERMAN.
RABBI ZIMMERMAN, HAPPY HANUKKAH.
HAPPY HANUKKAH
HAPPY HANUKKAH >>. THAT IS THE MOST TRADITIONAL
GREETING HERE IN THE WEST.
AND IT'S PERFECTLY FINE TO SAY
TO A JEWISH PERSON EVEN IF YOU
AREN'T JEWISH. SO WITH THE
GREETING OUT OF THE WAY, WE MOVE
TO THE MEANING THE ELEVATOR
HANUKKAH SPEECH AND 163 BCE
APPROXIMATELY THERE WAS A BAND
OF JEWS
OF JEWS
OF JEWS >> CALLED THE MACCABEES WHICH
MEANS HAMMER AND THEY WENT FROM
MODIIN, WHICH IS RIGHT OUTSIDE
OF JERUSALEM TO THE TEMPLE
IN JERUSALEM, THE SECOND TEMPLE
THAT STOOD IN JERUSALEM
TO RECLAIM JUDAISM.
>> WHEN THE MACCABEES WON
THAT NIGHT AND DROVE THE GREEK
SYRIAN RULERS OUT OF JERUSALEM,
THEY REDEDICATED THE SECOND
TEMPLE. SO THEY REDEDICATED IT,
WHICH WAS WHAT HANUKKAH THE WORD
MEANS DEDICATION
MEANS DEDICATION >> TO DO THAT THEY NEEDED
TO ILLUMINATE THE LIGHTS.
THE MACCABEES CAME INTO
THE SECOND TEMPLE. THERE WAS
ONLY ENOUGH OIL FOR ONE DAY
TO LIGHT THE LIGHTS THAT WERE
TRADITIONAL THE MAHTOMEDI
THE EVERLASTING LIGHT,
THE MENORAH THAT WAS SEVEN
BRANCH MENORAH IN THE TEMPLE.
BUT LO AND BEHOLD THAT ONE VIAL
OF OIL THE MIRACLE IS IT LASTED
EIGHT DAYS AND THEREFORE
HANUKKAH IS EIGHT DAYS, EIGHT
>> DAYS ALWAYS THIS TIME OF YEAR
IS WHEN WE MARKET. WHY ?
IT'S BECAUSE HANUKKAH IN THE
LUNAR CALENDAR, WHICH IS WHERE
JUDAISM BASES ITS TIME FALLS
RIGHT NOW. BUT IT DOES VARY FROM
YEAR TO YEAR AS THE LUNAR
CALENDAR DOESN'T MATCH
THE GREGORIAN CALENDAR. BUT IT'S
ALWAYS IN THE AREA OF VERY LATE
NOVEMBER TO LATE DECEMBER
AND HANUKKAH IS OLD
THAT MACCABEAN REVOLT, SHE SAID,
WAS IN 163 BCE AND IT WAS
HUNDREDS OF YEARS AFTER
THAT THAT SOME OF THE SYMBOLS
YOU MAY
YOU MAY
YOU MAY >> KNOW WERE USHERED IN .
THE MENORAH
THE MENORAH >> DID NOT COME INTO
THE SYMBOLISM OF HANUKKAH
TO ABOUT 400 YEARS AFTER
THE MACCABEES WON THAT BATTLE.
>> MENORAH IS WHERE WE PLACE
OUR LIGHTS, OUR CANDLES ON NIGHT
ONE WE LIGHT THE FIRST CANDLE
AND A CANDLE IS ADDED EACH NIGHT
UNTIL WE GET TO EIGHT
NINE COUNTING THE CANDLE WE USED
TO LIGHT THEM EACH EVENING. SO
WHY THE MENORAH
>> FIRST CENTURY WHEN A MENORAH
WAS CREATED BY THE RABBIS, THEY
INSTRUCTED PEOPLE TO PUT IT INTO
THE WINDOW SO EVERYONE COULD SEE
THAT THIS HOUSE WAS CELEBRATE
HANUKKAH ABOUT AN HOUR AFTER SUN
SET BECAUSE AT THAT POINT
PEOPLE WERE LEAVING THE MARKET
AND MORE PEOPLE WERE ON THE
STREET
STREET
STREET >>
STREET >> IN THE WINDOW TO BE SEEN BY
AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE GETS
TO A DEEP MEANING OF THE HOLIDAY
PRIDE FOR JEWS TO SHOW THE WORLD
WE ARE PROUD TO BE JEWS.
AND FINALLY, THERE
>> IS THE GAME. WHY DO JEWS PLAY
DREIDEL? SO WE PLAYED THIS FOR A
VARIETY OF REASONS. ONE IS AS
THE LIGHTS ARE ILLUMINATED,
WE'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO TALK ABOUT
ANYTHING OTHER THAN HANUKKAH
IN THE MIRACLE OF HANUKKAH
FOR EIGHT NIGHTS. AND SO
THE GAME WAS THIS GREAT
OPPORTUNITY TO PLAY A GAME
AND REMEMBER THE MIRACLE
AND REMEMBER HANNUKAH. MANY
THANKS, RABBI. THE GAME
OF DRIVEIN DREIDEL ALSO PASSES
THE TIME AS A FAMILY TOGETHER
GATHERED AROUND THE LIGHTS.
WE