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The Miracle of the Oil

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TEMPLE
The Second Temple in Jerusalem was rededicated by the Maccabees around 165 BCE, the event at the very center of the Hanukkah story.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
MENORAH
The seven-branched menorah was the lamp of the Temple; the nine-branched version used at Hanukkah is more precisely called a hanukkiah.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
SEAL
The crucial detail in the Talmudic account is that the surviving jar of oil still bore the unbroken seal of the High Priest, proof it had never been touched or defiled.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
KINDLED
The Hebrew word for the Hanukkah candle-lighting blessing refers to kindling, the same ancient act of coaxing a flame to life that priests performed in the Temple.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Hanukkah miracle of the oil word search, free to print and solve, built around the lamp, the jar, and eight nights that wouldn't quit.

About The Miracle of the Oil

When the Maccabees rededicated the Temple in Jerusalem, they found only a single small jar of ritually pure oil, enough, by every measure, for just one day. Yet the lamp burned on, night after night, for eight full days, until fresh oil could be prepared. That enduring flame became the heart of Hanukkah, a story less about armies than about a tiny vessel holding far more than it should, and the quiet, stubborn refusal of the light to go out.

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