The Hanukkah menorah, or hanukkiah, is one of the religious objects most commonly found in the Jewish home. The tradition of building up to lighting eight oil lamps (plus one shamash, or servitor ...

Archaeologists in Jerusalem have discovered a 1,700-year-old oil lamp decorated with rare Jewish artwork, including a unique menorah — a surprise given that the Roman Empire had tried to suppress the ...

Because Hanukkah and Christmas fall around the same ... Since electricity was a long, long way from being invented, people relied on oil lamps. At the time of the rededication, oil was in short ...

The festival of Hanukkah - and the customs associated ... Suggestions from BBC collections are below. Give me oil in my lamp, keep me burning. Give me oil in my lamp, I pray.

By a miracle, the lamp burned for eight days ... how important remembering the story of 'the miracle of the oil' is to celebrating Hanukkah... I wonder what things you try to remember together ...

Jews observe Hanukkah by lighting a menorah lamp every night for eight nights, representing the miracle of a one-day supply of oil for the rededicated Temple in Jerusalem lasting eight days.

Hanukkah - Chanukah in Hebrew ... nearly been destroyed but found and relit a lamp to dedicate the temple back to God The one small jar of oil was only enough for one day, but stayed alight ...

Miraculously, the light burned for eight days until additional oil could be procured ... oppressors and in the burning of the lamp. The celebration of Hanukkah is called the Festival of Lights ...