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发帖数: 710 | 1 Hanukka
(Hebrew: "Dedication"), also spelled HANUKKAH,
CHANUKAH, OR CHANUKKAH, also called FEAST OF
DEDICATION, FEAST OF LIGHTS, OR FEAST OF THE
MACCABEES, a Jewish observance commemorating the
rededication (164 BC) of the Second Temple of
Jerusalem after its desecration three years earlier by
order of Antiochus IV Epiphanes; the Syrian king was
thus frustrated in his attempt to extirpate the Jewish
faith. Though modern Israel tends to emphasize the
military victory of Judas Maccabeus, the disti |
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