The feast of Hanukkah was on 164 BCE. It started when Antiochus came under Rule of the Jews and put all of the Greek religion and ideas on the land. He had made everything that was Jewish into the Greek ways. When the Jews had heard this the Maccabes had started a revolt against Antiochus. The revolt which was three years was headed by the sons of a man called Mattathias. The campaign had leaded to the rebuilding and refurbishing of the Jewish Temple.
The Maccabees were unable to celebrate the holiday Sukkoth which was an eight day celebration. Hanukah also had flourished the eight day celebration like Sukkoth. Flavius Josephus was a person who wrote a book on this eight day celebration. He often referred to it as the Festival of Lights. The feast occurs during December otherwise in the Hebrew religion known as Kiselev.
Since the Jews didn’t like the Greek ways they never had adopted there ideas and religion. The religion allowed many wrong things such as institutionalized prostitution, pedophilia, adultery, and infanticide. The Greek ways had never gotten along with the Jews.
When the Jews revolted against the Greeks they had attacked them badly. Every time the Jews revolted they attacked and they would run and hide. They had hid in the caves and the mountains. The Temple was in a wasteland while it was covered in weed, plants and, thorns, and the surface of the alter was destroyed. The Jews were devastated and very angry and they had rebuilt the altar and the Temple. When they were lighting the light the had used the founded oil. The oil which they had found was the oil which was found only in a short amount. The oil had lasted by a miracle performed by God and it had lasted eight days. The temple had become the house of God once again when the Jews had rebuilt the temple. They Jews celebrated by praying for eight days.
The holiday or Hanukkah or Festival of Lights is the rededication of the temple. When the Greeks had been gone the Jews had never given up there faith and there hope of staying alive. They had taken out the Greek statues and then had taken out all the Greek stuff.
The feast of Hanukkah was the rededication of the Jewish temple. They had rebuilt the temple with great hope and had never given up. They were dedicated with there work and worked for God. This eight day celebration is still celebrated to this day.
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