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Hanukkah 2025: Dates, first and last night, candle lighting schedule, traditions and key customs

Hanukkah commemorates the triumph of the Maccabees over the Greek-Syrian rulers in the second century BCE and the rededication of Jewish worship at the Temple. Tradition holds that a single flask of pure oil, sufficient for just one day, miraculously burned for eight days, giving time for fresh oil to be prepared.