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December 17, 2014
Welcome friends to our Hanukkah edition of the Hebrew Podcasts Newsletter.
Please also check our Hebrew Lesson 26 - Making a Hanukiah.
We are sending your way Chag Sameach greetings and Happy Hanukkah.
Featured Holiday
Hanukkah (rededication) - Kislev 25 - כ"ה בכסלו, תשע"ה, is celebrated on Wednesday, December 17, 2014. It is the celebration of the Maccabees' victory in 165 BCE over ancient Greece and the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. Oil was found in the temple, but it was only enough to light the Menorah for one night. Miraculously, it lit the Menorah for eight nights. To celebrate this miracle, on each of the eight nights of Hanukkah, another candle is lit in the Hanukiah (a special Menorah with 9 candle holders) and special songs are sung. The traditional foods are fried foods such as latkes (potato pancakes) and sufganiyot (jelly doughnuts). Kids love playing the dreidel (spinning top), and parents give them Hanukkah gelt (Yiddish for money, a chocolate coin).
The dreidel, which is called Sevivon in Hebrew, is a four-sided spinning top with 4 Hebrew letters that are the acronym of the sentence Nes (miracle) Gadol (big) Haya (was) Po (here). Kids who play outside of Israel have dreidels that have the letters for the sentence Nes (miracle) Gadol (big) Haya (was) Sham (there).
Hanukkah Kids Crafts
New Idioms
| Broke into song | na-tan ko-lo be-shir | נתן קולו בשיר |
| A voice crying in the wilderness | kol ko-re ba-mid-bar | קול קורא במדבר |
| Took her advice | sha-ma be-ko-la | שמע בקולה |
| Speak up | ha-ri-mi et ha-kol | הרימי את הקול |
New Words
Opera o-pe-ra אופרה
Musical ma-ha-ze-mer מחזמר
Chorus mak-he-la מקהלה
Orchestra tiz-mo-ret תזמורת
Band le-ha-ka להקה
Window into Israel
Mitzpe Ramon
Makhtesh Ramon מכתש רמון is one of the largest craters in the world located in the Negev desert in the south of Israel. It is 38 km long, 6 km wide, and 450 meters deep. The visitor center Mitzpe Ramon מצפה רמון that was founded in 1951, is situated on the Northern ridge has a lookout to the crater and a zoo of desert animals. An Alpaca ranch displays alpacas, llamas and other animals and visitors can observe the alpaca wool factory.
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