When the Maccabees finally recaptured Jerusalem and the Temple, they found it in ruins. But amid the devastation, they discovered one sealed jar of pure olive oil bearing the seal of the High Priest.

In addition, the Maccabees’ campaign against the Seleucid ... New York’s Jewish Theological Seminary, and Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, he holds a doctorate in Hebrew literature.

Over the next few decades the Maccabees’ successors Shimon the Kohen Gadol and after him his son Yochanan Hyrcanus I drove the Seleucids out of the central region around Jerusalem, then expanded ...

1 Maccabees is one of the deuterocanonical books ... In the space of three years, the Jews recapture Jerusalem and purify the Temple (4:36). This purification and rededication of the Temple ...

Other torches, kindled at Modi’in, gravesite of the Maccabees, were flown from Lydda ... when Bar-Kochba and his warriors were defending Jerusalem against the legions of Rome, coincided with ...

Hanukkah commemorates the rededication of the ancient Jewish Temple in Jerusalem after a small Jewish army called the Maccabees reclaimed it from the Greek leader Antiochus IV Epiphanes in 164 BC.

These Maccabees, as they came to be called, used guerrilla tactics to defeat the Syrian army, recaptured Jerusalem and rededicated the temple. Many of you have heard that their victory was ...

The Maccabees, an army of Jewish rebels, conquered the Syrian-Greeks who defiled the holy temple in Jerusalem. The Maccabees then reclaimed the temple. "Hanukkah is a Jewish festival of lighting ...

THE HOLIDAY CELEBRATES THE VICTORY OF THE MACCABEES OVER THE SYRIANS AND THE REDEDICATION OF THE SECOND TEMPLE OF JERUSALEM. THAT HAPPENED AROUND 165 BCE. A ONE DAY SUPPLY OF OIL MIRACULOUSLY ...

When the Maccabees prevailed over the Syrian Greeks ... that took place during the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. The oil burned for eight days while the Jewish people were ...