= חנוכה Chanukkah Chanukka Chanukah Chanuka Channukah Hannukkah Hanukah As December approaches, this year is not unlike every other year that has passed before it. People around me start asking "When is Hanukkah? Are you excited?" The truth of the matter is - while Hanukkah is a lovely holiday, it is really not up there on the level of importance of some other Jewish holidays and holy days (i.e. in no particular order: Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Passover, Sukkot, Shavuot, Shemini Azteret & Simchat Torah, Tisha B'av, Tu B'shvat, Purim & Ta'anit Esther, Rosh Chodesh, and the celebration that comes every Friday at sundown - Shabbat). The celebration that occurs during Hanukkah is not included within the Torah, which is where the major holidays are described, but because it occurs near to another BIG non-Jewish holiday (guess which one?) over the years it has gained notoriety outside of the Jewish community as well as within the commun...
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