Praise and Celebrate

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Praise and Celebrate

• Sing to the Lord
• Psalms 113-118
• Especially Psalms 117

CHANUKAH (Hanukkah) FEAST OF DEDICATION Festiva
l of Lights

1. Why is it important to celebrate this feast?
2. Why was worshiping Yahweh(God) not easy?
3. Why was the feast called Chanukah or the feast of
   Lights? Why two names?
4. What does dedication mean?
5. Why do we light candles during this time?
6. How did the Jews keep the lights burning for 8
   days with only one day of oil?
7. Whats a miracle?

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Chanukah (Hanukkah) History Lesson

• Chanukah celebrates
• A Great Miracle happened there!

• What does Chanukah (Hanukkah) mean?
• What does dedication mean?
• What did the Syrian king do?
• What did some of the Jews do about this?
• What happened next?

• ___Answer
• The re-dedication of the temple included lighting
  the Temple menorah. There was found only one
  days supply of pure oil.
• They needed 8 days to make new oil.
• The priest lit the menorah and it burned for 8
  days on 1 day of oil.

• ____Answer Devoted or set aside for a specific
  purpose.
• ____ Answer Chanukah (Hanukkah) means
  dedication.
• ____Answer Syrian King Antiochus IV (King
  Epiphanes)
• was a SELEUCID king of the Greek/Syrian kingdom.
• He ruled Syria and conquered Egypt except
  Alexandria.
• He conquered Israel and Jerusalem and required
  all to worship his gods.
• Jewish people were forbidden to worship the one
  true Yahweh God. ( )
• No Torah (scripture reading) No Prayer and No
  Praise.

____Answer In 165 BC, Mattityahu and  Judas
Maccabee, Jewish priests, and the
anti-Greek Jews conquered Judea and Jerusalem,
and tore down the altar of Zeus.
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Welcome to Synagogue School Brit Chadashah (New
Testament) Vocabulary and Memory Verse
English Hebrew letters Your practice here
Jerusalem (Yerushalayim) MEM YOOD LAMED SHIN VAV REYSH YOOD
Israel (Yisroel) LAMED ALEF REYSH SHEEN YOOD
Jesus (Yeshua) AYIN VAV SHIN YOOD
Chanukah (Dedication) HEY KAF VAV NUN CHET
Then came the feast of dedication at Jerusalem.
It was winter, and Jesus was in the temple...
John 1022 ( NIV)
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??? ???? ????? ... (Yochanan 1022)
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You are Gods Temple a great miracle happened
here! You are the light to the world Dedicated
to the Lord Talk with God (Pray) Listen to God
(Bible) Praise (Sing, Dance, Shout)
Draw a picture of you inside the box. Read aloud