When is Hanukkah 2024 – date and traditions of the holiday – UNIAN
We tell you what kind of holiday Hanukkah is, when and how it is celebrated.
Hanukkah is a Jewish holiday of miracles and light that lasts for 8 days. What is its meaning, what are the traditions and what date does Hanukkah 2024 fall – we will tell you below.
What is Hanukkah
Hanukkah is a date in Jewish culture when Jews remember the miracle that happened after liberation from the Greek yoke.
Events that took place in 164 BC. in Israel, they tell how the beliefs of the Greeks were imposed on the Jews. In those days, Emperor Antiochus Epiphanes persecuted the Jews, forbade them to read the Torah, and plundered the temple treasury. The guerrilla war that started in response lasted about three years, and the rebels managed to liberate the territory from the invaders.
Then the Jews went to the Temple Mount to rebuild their destroyed…
