MustKnow Channuka background

Date of Channuka

• 25th Tishrei

• 15th Tishrei

• 25th Kislev

• 15th Tevet

During which era did the story of Channuka take place?

• Second Beit Hamikdash

• First Beit Hamikdash

• in between both Batei Mikdash

• After second Beit Hamikdash

Channuka commemorates...

• The military victory

• The fact that the Greeks did not destroy our Judaism

• The miracle of the oil

• Eating donuts

Channuka means...

• Lighting

• Light

• Dedication

• Victory

The Greek ruler was named

• Herod

• Antiochus

• Nebuchanezzar

• Achav

The Jewish resistance was called

• Helenists

• Bar Kochba

• Maccabees

• Yehudim

The Greeks outlawed

• Eating Kosher

• Temple service

• Bris Mila

• Shabbos

The Jewish resistance was led by

• Bar Kochba

• Barak

• Matisyahu

• Mordechai

When the Jews came into the Bet Hamikdash they found

• The place destroyed

• An idol

• Only one jug of oil

• The Menorah defiled

The miracle was that

• They found the oil

• The oil lasted longer than it naturally could

• They fooled the Greeks

• They invented the dreidel