Are you sure you control every detail regarding Hanukkah?
Remember every story the kindergarten teacher told?
It's time to be embarrassed and find out that not everything you were told in kindergarten is correct, with the Hanukkah quiz that will put you in order, after you discover the right answers.
Eight questions for the eight days of Hanukkah, with surprising answers.
Do not answer before you have thought twice!
Below the quiz - sources for answers and explanations.
And now, sources
1. Foreign Work Tractate, page 8, AA.
2. Maccabees 1: 4, Na-Naz.
3. Josephus Flavius, The Ancestors of the Jews, Book 12, 7, and 7.
4. Maccabees 2: 8-11.
5. They came from the house of Seleucus, who lived in Syria and north of it.
6. A Hanukkah story late for the Purim story, which took place in the Persian period.
7. "And they shall dedicate the altar in the very day that the Gentiles defiled it."
Maccabees I, Chapter D.
8. https://blog.nli.org.il/origin_of_the_dreidel/
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