🕎Hanukkah Emojis Collection

Hanukkah is a Jewish 🎉 Holiday symbolizing the triumph of light over darkness, the celebration of which begins on the 25th of Kislev (the third month of the Jewish calendar, corresponds to 🍂 November or 🎄 December) and lasts eight days until 2 or 3 Tevet (the fourth month of the Jewish calendar, falls on December or ❄️ January).

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The emoji stands for 🕎 Menorah with 9 lit candles and is used for Hanukkah. It was approved by Unicode and added to the 1.0 emoji version in 2015.
The date of Hanukkah is unstable, so each year it changes according to the Jewish 📅 Calendar. In 2021, it will last from the evening of November 28 to the evening of December 6.

The 🕎 Hanukkah Emojis Collection page provides the following information:

Holiday history of 🕎 Hanukkah
Traditions and symbols of 🕎 Hanukkah

1. Holiday history of 🕎 Hanukkah

In 170 BC. Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the Syrian 🤴 King from the Seleucid dynasty, captured the Jerusalem 🕍 Temple. After that, he sent to Syria all the sacred property of the temple, including the golden 🕎 Menorah. Due to the desecration of the holy site of Israel by Antiochus Epiphanes, the service in the temple was stopped for 3 years. At the same time, the Jewish people split into Orthodox Jews, those who remained faithful to the values of the Torah, and Hellenized Jews, those who 🧎 Worshiped pagan beliefs.

In 167 BC. the fight of the Maccabees (Hasmoneans) against the Seleucids began. The Hasmonean leader, the priest Matityahu Hashmonai, proclaimed: “Whoever is for God, follow me!” The people who responded followed him and waged a long guerrilla war. After his death, his son, Yehuda Maccabee, stood at the head of the army.

In 164 BC. Jerusalem and the Temple were liberated. The Maccabees liberated the Jerusalem temple and returned the tradition of lighting the Menorah at 25 Kislev.

Interesting fact: There are several different origins for the name of Hanukkah. The first option probably comes from the expression “hanukkat ha-mizbeah”, which means the consecration of the altar. According to the second assumption, the expression marks the phrase “חנוכה = חנו כ”ה”, which translates as “they rested [from the enemies] on the 25th [day of the month Kislev]”. Also, some interpret the name of this holiday as Hag Urim, which is the Feast of 🔥 Lights.

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— Light of the Menorah

— Gift exchange

— Temple visit

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🙏Folded Hands

📅Calendar

🕍Synagogue

🔯Dotted Six-Pointed Star

2. Traditions and symbols of 🕎 Hanukkah

The Hanukkah holiday lasts 8 days. According to legend, after the liberation of the 🕍 Temple, the Maccabean army could not find the required amount of oil to light the 🕎 Menorah and consecrate the temple. The oil found would have lasted only for one day, but the Maccabees nevertheless lit the menorah and a miracle happened: the oil lasted for 8 days.

Hence the main tradition to light 🕯 Candles throughout Hanukkah.

There is a certain order:

On the first day, you need to light 1 candle;
On the second light two ones;
On the third light three ones;
And so on until eight candles.

In this case, you need to start lighting the candles from the one farthest from the 🚪 Door. Also, a shamash, a separate candle that is lit every day before the main candles, is used to light all the candles. Traditionally, on Hanukkah, 44 candles are used, which are lit in a special candlestick Chanukiah, which is one of the main symbols of the holiday.

Traditionally, 🥛 Milk dishes are served on Hanukkah, in memory of the salvation of Israel by Judith. It is also customary to eat sufganiyot, which are sweet fried 🍩 Donuts with jam, condensed milk, or 🍫 Chocolate in powdered sugar, and levivot (potato pancakes).

In the Ashkenazi tradition, on Hanukkah 👦 Children are given Hanukkah 💵 Money, chocolate 🪙 Coins and allowed to play a dreidel, which is a spinning top with 4 sides, each with a Hebrew letter. The letters נ ג ה פ are translated as “נס גדול היה פ” – “there was a great miracle.”