DESCRIPTION:
Happy Hanukkah sung by Judy Tellerman from the cd, Jewish Holiday Songs. Happy Hanukkah (c) words and music by Judith S. Tellerman. Mix by DToolz at Hideaway Studios. The song can be found at cdbaby.com on the JEWISH HOLIDAY SONGS cd.
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This song is about Hanukkah/Chanukah (Heb.: Rededication [of the Temple in Jerusalem]), the Festival of Lights, an 8-day holiday celebrated by kindling lights on a special 9-branched Chanukah Menorah each day; eating foods fried in oil; and spinning a dreidel (top with the Hebrew letters representing "A Great Miracle Happened Here,"). The dreidel was originally used by children to worship God while pretending to play a game when Antiochus decreed the death penalty for praying. The eight days of lights and foods cooked in oil are meant to remind us that when the Temple was rededicated only enough purified oil for the 7-branched Menorah, the Eternal Light symbolizing God's presence, was found to last one day, yet lasted for 8 days, until more oil could be purified. The Temple was "dedicated with songs and harps and lutes and cymbals...So they celebrated the dedication of the altar for eight days." Chanukah commemorates a spiritual victory; and spiritual strength is symbolized by the light of the Menorah. (IMaccabees 4:52-56)