Hanukkah Festival - Hanukkah (English spelling)

Japanese: ハヌカ祭 - ハヌカさい(英語表記)Hanukkah
Hanukkah Festival - Hanukkah (English spelling)
A Jewish holiday. It is also called the Purification of the Temple. It lasts for one week from the 25th of the Jewish month of Chislev (November to December in the solar calendar). It commemorates the day on the 25th of the month of Chislev in 164 BCE when Judas Maccabeus purified the Jerusalem Temple, which had been desecrated by the Seleucid dynasty's Antiochus IV Epiphanes, and rededicated it as a Jewish sanctuary. It is also called the Festival of Lights, and the custom is to decorate an eight-branched candelabrum called the Hanukkiah and add one light each night during the festival.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
ユダヤ教の祭日。〈宮潔(きよ)め祭〉ともいう。ユダヤ暦のキスレウ月(太陽暦の11~12月)25日から1週間続く。前164年キスレウ月25日に,マカベア家のユダ(ユダス・マカバイオス)が,セレウコス朝のアンティオコス4世エピファネスによって汚されたエルサレム神殿を潔め,再びユダヤ教の聖所として奉献したことを記念する祭り。〈光の祭り〉とも呼ばれ,ハヌキヤという名の8枝の燭台を飾り,祭りの間,1夜に1灯ずつ光を増やしていく習慣が守られる。

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