This is the first holiday of the year in which "Al Ha-Nissim" is added to the Amidah.
This is the first holiday of the year in which "Al Ha-Nissim" is added to the Amidah. Hillel and Shammai debated whether a ritual for this holiday should be done increasingly or decreasingly; that ritual involves a shamash. On this holiday, children play a game involving a device marked with initials referring to "a great miracle" and sing songs including "Ma'oz Tsur". The aforementioned device is a dreidel, and the miracle of this holiday is oil in the Temple burning for eight days after a revolt led by Judah Maccabee. Name this Jewish festival that includes the lighting of a nine-branched menorah.
This is the first holiday of the year in which "Al Ha-Nissim" is added to the Amidah.
Chanukah or Hanukkah