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A popular Hebrew Hanukkah song, "Sevivon" or "S'vivon" ( Hebrew: סביבון sevivon) is Hebrew for "dreidel", where dreidel ( Hebrew: דרײדל dreydl) is the Yiddish word for a spinning top. This song, "Sevivon," is very popular in Israel and by others familiar with the Hebrew language. The English below is a literal translation, not an ...
e. " Ma'oz Tzur " ( Hebrew: מָעוֹז צוּר, romanized : Māʾōz Ṣūr) is a Jewish liturgical poem or piyyut. It is written in Hebrew, and is sung on the holiday of Hanukkah, after lighting the festival lights. The hymn is named for its Hebrew incipit, which means "Strong Rock (of my Salvation)" and is a name or epithet for God in Judaism.
v. t. e. " I Have a Little Dreidel " [ 1] (also known as " The Dreidel Song " [ 1] or " Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel ") is a children's Hanukkah song in the English-speaking world that also exists in a Yiddish version called " Ikh Bin A Kleyner Dreydl ", ( Yiddish: איך בין אַ קלײנער דרײדל Lit: I am a little dreidel German: Ich ...
Hanukkah is the Jewish Festival of Lights. While not as overtly holy a Jewish holiday as Passover or Yom Kippur, Hanukkah has been embraced by the Western world as an often blue-and-white answer ...
Hanukkah is a special festival that comes alive each year with rich traditions and practices. One of the most important holidays in the Jewish faith, "Chanukah" is an eight-day celebration of a ...
Oh Chanukah (also Chanukah, Oh Chanukah) is an English version of the Yiddish Oy Chanukah ( Yiddish: חנוכּה אױ חנוכּה Khanike Oy Khanike ). The English words, while not a translation, are roughly based on the Yiddish. "Oy Chanukah" is a traditional Yiddish Chanukah song. "Oh Chanukah" is a very popular modern English Chanukah song.
During the Middle Ages, Megillat Antiochus was read in the Italian-rite synagogues on Shabbat Hanukkah. A machzor of the Kaffa rite from the year 1735 instructs to read the Megillat Antiochus during Mincha of Shabbat Hanukkah. Baladi-rite Temani Jews had it as a custom to read the scroll after the haftarah reading on Shabbat Hanukkah.
Hanukkah menorah. A Hanukkah menorah, or hanukkiah, [ n 1] is a nine-branched candelabrum lit during the eight-day Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. Eight of the nine branches hold lights (candles or oil lamps) that symbolize the eight nights of the holiday; on each night, one more light is lit than the previous night, until on the final night all ...