First
candle lit on Sunday evening December 21th, 2008
through December 29, 2008
graphic by Bill Lane
Menorahs are lit from right to left, using
the middle candle ( servant candle) to light with
Prayers for the lighting of the Menorah
http://www.torah.org/learning/yomtov/chanukah/brachos.html
or
a simple prayer of re-dedicating ourselves ( we are the temple of
the Holy Ghost )
Hanukkah...Feast
of Lights...Feast of Dedication...Chanukah
Miracle of Oil ..."nes" in Hebrew means
"miracle"
"A Great Miracle Happened There"
What
is Hanukkah ?
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/dec2005/brandonc1228.htm
Hanukkah
was first celebrated as a belated Sukkot. Those two feasts are
tied together by the fact that Mary conceived our Lord during
Hanukkah and gave birth at Sukkot the following year.
(See Greg Killian)
Greg
Killian http://tckillian.com/greg/chanukah.html
Greg also tells us that because Hanukkah is an 8 day celebration,
we make sure that the word "Hanukkah" has 8 letters in
it.
THE
LIGHT IS MESSIAH....many good articles www.haydid.org/hanukah2.htm
Hanukkah, Menaorah and John 10
The LIGHT on Solomon's Porch
http://www.restorationrecords.com/articles/light_on_solomon.htm
http://home.centurytel.net/grafted-promise/endtimeline.html
(Diane Talsma)
Come, O Come Emmanuel
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/o/c/ocomocom.htm
http://www.bardstown.com/~mtipton/christmas/emmanuel.htm
Come Thou Long Expected Jesus
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/c/o/m/comtlong.htm
http://www.bardstown.com/~mtipton/christmas/comethou.htm
More good articles from Haydid www.haydid.org/hanukkahindex.htm
Virtual
Jerusalem http://209.58.241.78/vjholidays/chanukah/
JM
Jackson, Sr. http://www.lamblion.com/prophecy/Jews-Israel/Jews-11.php
The word "menorah" is not in the KJV-Bible
(Concordance).
The Bible uses the word "candlestick" and
"lamp" instead.
by David Brown www.amfi.org/hanukkah.htm
Chanukah
on the Net www.holidays.net/chanukah/story.html
Hanukkah (Yeshuat Israel )
http://web.archive.org/web/20030207122754/www.yeshuatyisrael.com/hanukkah.htm
Chanukah: A Spiritual Celebration http://torah.org/learning/yomtov/chanukah/
The Power of the Precious Few --- B Kahane
http://www.kahane.org/ParshaB/weekParsha.htm#Hanu
Glen
Penton
/
http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/delacroix/169/holydays.htm
Maccabees
(WWSB)
http://biblestudy.churches.net/CCEL/WWSB/2MACCABE/INDEX.HTM
On-Line
Virtual Menorah
(for those who do not have Hanukkah menorahs)
http://torah.org/chanukah.html
Hanukkah passages in the Bible:
Maccabees (Apocrypha), Haggai 2: 10; 2:18
and 20 and
John 10:22 ....It was at the
time of Hanukkah that Jesus imparted the greatest truth to His
people:
"I and My Father are one" (echad) John 10:30 -- The Trinity
What
is the meaning of Hanukkah ? ( 8 parts + songs )
www.cesjds.org/hanukah.htm
Menorah
facts etc. http://aish.com/a/chanukah60
by Marty Goetz (Psalm Enchanted
Evening)....
"My Yeshua--
On this Feast of Dedication, I dedicate myself to You.
And for every candle on the Menorah that illuminates the night
Comes my prayer that You kindle in me Messiah
A desire for Your fire, for Your Light !....
a great miracle happened here
(in my
heart).
88
Hanukkah sites (Maven) http://www.maven.co.il/subjects.asp?S=128
from Yeshuat Yisrael www.yeshuatyisrael.com/hanukkah.htm
Hanukkah not just for Jews -- Rabbi Daniel Lapin
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36235
Rabbi
Daniel Lapin http://tckillian.com/greg/chanrabn.html
How to recognize dictators -- December 17, 2003
Rabbi Daniel Lapin
Here are two chief characteristics of tyrants:
The first is they come to
power during times of chaos and anarchy.
When the traditions and rules that hold together the invisible
framework of social stability collapse, the tyrant seized his
moment. We humans so yearn for predictability in our lives that
even if it is offered by someone odious and suspect, we will
often embrace it. Freedom run amok can be far more frightening to
ordinary folks trying to raise their families and feed them than
the cartoon figure with the moustache who insists on total power
in order to restore our lives to the normality of our nostalgia.
The second characteristic of tyrants is they dominate the epoch
within their cultures. They
demand and obtain a worship of personality.
Statues, parades and rallies are only symbolic of the total
authority they exercise over their people. Women frequently adore
them and babies are raised in their adulation.
Ancient Jewish tradition identifies any epoch defined
by one charismatic and powerful leader as an epoch headed for
trouble.
The first time the Bible identifies this pattern of human history
is the opening of Genesis chapter 14: "And it came to pass
in the days of Amrafel king of Shinar ..." Jewish tradition
identifies Amrafel as biblical history's first tyrant, Nimrod
– the same ruler who built the tower of Babel.
One unintended side effect of the secular fundamentalism
sweeping America is how it erodes the rules
that hold together the invisible net of social stability.
By encouraging unfettered personal license,
secular fundamentalism helps collapse civilized norms.
.......
It can eventually, however, infect ordinary Americans with docility about further federal control beyond that
necessary to protect us from our enemies.
In a desperate attempt to recover some sense of normality and
predictability in our lives, we might be tempted to embrace expanded government influence over how we
live, earn and worship. We would yearn for the predictability and
normality that used to be supplied by those
traditional rules that many Jewish and Christian Americans of
faith remember increasingly nostalgically.
back to Biblical basics
Biblically-based faith
helps to maintain freedom by holding together the invisible
framework of social stability. This might be one lesson that we
Jewish and Christian Americans of faith can draw from
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36187
The
Temple Menorah only had oil for one day,
yet it stayed lit for 8 miraculous days.
There is no explanation for this, other than the intervention of
God.
If ever our electrical grids went down, or if ever there were an
oil crisis can God supply our needs? Unequivocally YES ! Our God
is the same yesterday, today and forever ! Hebrews 13:8
Please see "1, 2 Kings and the Great Tribulation"
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/sparo.html
"
Be still and see the wondrous works of God"
Christ
in Hanukkah
http://www.sojournerministries.com/articles/flame.htm
Hannukah
Website -- Dianne Talsma
The
Blessings recited each night for lighting the candles
(enlarge to read)
http://home.centurytel.net/grafted-promise/
this is the FIRST night of the
kindling - why are the SERVANT candle
and the FIRST candle NOT LIT? Did
they get lit later?
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/dec2004/diannet129-1.htm
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41819
Challah
Bread
www.haydid.org/challah.htm
More
recipes...brisket, jelly-donuts, chicken etc.
www.haydid.org/recipes.htm
Jesus of Nazareth
fulfilled all the Messianic prophecies
http://web.archive.org/web/19990503164626/http://www.yeshuatyisrael.com/moshiach.htm
Hannukah
http://www.hopeofisrael.net/messiah.htm
http://www.i-amfaithweb.net/ot_prphcs_flflldby_yeshua.htm
http://www.lightofmashiach.org/prophecy.html
http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/messiah.htm
http://www.godlygames.com/biblebread/messiah1.htm
http://www.godonthe.net/evidence/messiah.htm
http://www.familybible.org/Articles/BibleProphecy/61Prophecies.htm
www.yeshuatyisrael.com/moshiach.htm
more
links :
SONG:
"Light one candle"(don't let the light go out)
http://www.coejl.org/Hanukkah/documents/songs.shtml
In
this song, Peter, Paul and Mary bid us to light a candle for the
wisdom to know when the peace-maker comes. We won't have to light
any candles, when He comes, for He'll split the Eastern sky and
He will be seen worldwide , like lighting--from east to west.
The sun will barely give light and the moon won't give any light
at all. The stars will fall from the sky. There will be
catyclymic events in the heavens. Matthew 24:27, 29, 30.
"Every eye shall see Him" Rev. 1:7
And not only that, He'll arrive at the Mt. of Olives and split it
in two, with a river running from the Temple Mount to the Dead
Sea, thus making it a living sea.
Zechariah 14:4-9
We certainly won't mistake the real Messiah for the false-messiah
who only comes in his own name. John 5:43
"The
Threedom of Freedom" and other good articles
www.ohr.org.il/special/chanukah/index.htm
Jesus
and the Feast of Dedication
http://www.heraldmag.org/01jf_9.htm
Good
background and prayers: www.ou.org/chagim/chanukah/default.htm
The
Hannukah menorah has 8 candles plus the servant candle,
equaling 9 candles in all.
The Shabbat (Sabbath-day) menorah has 7 candles
representing the 7 days of the week that we ask God to bless.
God
still has miracle oil "nes" in Israel today. Please see
www.nessenergy.com
Is
this the reason that Russia comes to take a spoil ??? Ezekiel 38
Hanukkah
Websites
http://www.jr.co.il/hotsites/j-hdaych.htm
PHOTOS : Record ALIYA to
Israel from America and Canada at Hanukkah 2005
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=95710
Dec. 25, 2005
First time in 2, 200 years, the Menorah will be lit on the great
wall of China
http://www.shturem.net/index.php?section=news&id=1990&lang=english
Israel 2005
The largest Menorah in the world, whose wax is
made from more than 5,000 candles, will light up Jerusalem
Sunday night [ December 25, 2005] , the first evening of the
eight-day Festival of Lights
The menorah will be lit at Pisgat Ze'ev, in the northern part of
the capital, and is housed in an elevator, enabling it to be seen
from miles around to fulfill the mitzvah of publicizing
the miracle of Chanukah, which occurred 2,144 years ago.
The holiday recalls both the miraculous victory of the minority
of Jews over the ruling Greeks, and the miracle of the
burning of holy olive oil for eight days.
After the military victory, the priests at that time searched the
desecrated Temple and found one container of olive oil
that was fit to light the holy Menorah. The oil was enough for
only 24 hours, but lasted eight days, during which
time the priests were able to prepare new oil.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=95425
Jewish
calendar is luni-solar ( both .... since adjustment is
made by Adar II );
Gentile calendar is solar only ; Muslim calendar is lunar only . See Arthur Spier
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/nation/13473497.htm
DON'T
LET THE LIGHT GO OUT
"Menorah of Mortars Marks First
Night of Hanukkah" By Scott Shiloh -- Dec. 25, 2005
Tonight marks the first night of
Hanukkah, the festival of lights commemorating the liberation of
the land of Israel from the yoke of Hellenistic domination
Gush Katif refugees, many of whom are
still dwelling in hotels awaiting permanent housing, lit a unique
menorah tonight, one made of mortar shells fired by Arab
terrorists into the heart of N’vei Dekalim, the largest
community of Gush Katif.
That special menorah commemorates the miracle of Jewish survival
throughout the ages, and reminds us of the symbolic role Gush
Katif has played in the saga of Jewish history: a community
standing victorious despite constant attempts by Arab terrorists
to wipe it out.
5000 mortars rained down on Gush Katif, from the onset of the
Oslo War in September 2000, to August 2005. Miraculously, they
succeeded in causing only minor damage and minimal casualties.
Not only did they fail to harm the community physically, they
failed to impact the Jewish spirit burning in the hearts of its
residents. They call the menorah of mortars the “al
hanissim,” menorah of miracles.
While those communities have since been uprooted, not by Arab
terrorists, but by the policies of the Israeli government, the
menorah of mortars testifies to a spirit that eternally renews
itself, and one that becomes stronger in the face adversity.
Last year at this time, Hanukkah menorahs were lit in the homes
of Jews living in the towns of Dugit and Elei Sinai, located in
the northern parts of the Gaza district.
Now Arab terrorists are firing Kassam rockets from those places
onto Israeli cities, towns, and IDF bases from Ashkelon to
Sderot.
The light and spirit of Gush Katif may look a bit dim from
today’s vantage point. But if Jewish history is a guide, it
is only a matter of time before all of Israel looks toward that
light in much in the same way as Jews around the world tonight
light the menorah and participate in the victory of the Maccabees
over the Greeks.
Both represent victories of spirit over those who wished to
extinguish the light of Israel.
-- Arutz Sheva Dec. 26, 2005
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