Today will be talking about the Feast of the Dedication also known as Hanukkah.
This holiday is also called the Festival of Lights.
This festival is celebrated during the month of Kislev on the 25th day of that month which for us would be late November and early December.
This festival takes place for eight days and nights.
This festival is called the Feast of Dedication because it celebrates the victory that Maccabee had over the Greek oppression.
It also commemorates the rededication of the temple in Jerusalem.
The king of the Greeks forced the Israelites to abandon their God, customs, and the Torah.
He made the people of Israel bow down to the Greek gods.
The story that happened at the time according to history is that the Greek king Antiochus came in and defiled the temple by using a pig to sacrifice on the altar spilling the blood on God's word-the holy scriptures.
4 brothers led by Judah Maccabee decided to form an army that would fight for the religious freedom of the Jews.
This group would become to be known as the Maccabees.
The group fought for three years before they were victorious over the Greeks.
When they got the temple back this group cleared the temple of all the Greek god idols and was rededicated to the Lord.
Continued tomorrow...
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