"Extra" Days Observed...
Hanukkah:
Hanukkah is NOT the "Jewish version of Christmas". Hanukkah is a celebration of the dedication of the temple, the word Hanukkah means "dedication".
Hanukkah is also known as the "festival of lights". There are a LOT of traditions for celebrating Hanukkah, and its very easy to find information on this "holiday"... but there are no scriptural instructions for celebrating this day (actually "8" days). It was VERY important that the temple be re-built and dedicated (once again) to YHWH. THAT is the REASON for celebrating Hanukkah... if it isn't, then it would be better to "create" your own family holiday for your own reasons (which isn't a bad idea for creating extra fun in your family!-- just not during Hanukkah;)
Hanukkah is also known as the "festival of lights". There are a LOT of traditions for celebrating Hanukkah, and its very easy to find information on this "holiday"... but there are no scriptural instructions for celebrating this day (actually "8" days). It was VERY important that the temple be re-built and dedicated (once again) to YHWH. THAT is the REASON for celebrating Hanukkah... if it isn't, then it would be better to "create" your own family holiday for your own reasons (which isn't a bad idea for creating extra fun in your family!-- just not during Hanukkah;)
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How To Play "Dreidel"~
*Fun* Hanukkah songs :)
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Miracle- The Maccabeats
Holiday Party (Tonight Tonight)- Pella Productions |
Candlelight- The Maccabeats
Light Up The Nights- Beit Meir Boys Choir |
Some "Serious" Hanukkah Songs~
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Chanukah Song- Be A Maccabee
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We Are Lights (A Song For Chanukah)- ?
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Purim:
Purim is celebrated annually at sundown on the 14th day of the Hebrew month of Adar (Adar ll in leap years). It is a celebration that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people by YHWH. It is a time of fasting and remembering (done before the 14th) followed by great rejoicing and feasting. There are many *fun* traditions, customs, and foods that are associated with this "holiday" that may interest you, but according to the Scriptures YHWH himself did not give instruction for this (it was the Jews that experienced that great deliverance who desired that it should never be forgotten--which I think is good and pleasing to YHWH)... so, I would think that it would be according to your own preferance or creativity :)
Esther 9:26-28
"Wherefore they called these days Pu'-rim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come to them,
The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;
And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Pu'-rim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed."
(*should continue reading verses 29-32)
Esther 9:26-28
"Wherefore they called these days Pu'-rim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come to them,
The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;
And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Pu'-rim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed."
(*should continue reading verses 29-32)