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“Oh Hanukkah” is a joyful, modern revival inspired by the beloved classic “Oh Chanukah! Oh Chanukah!”
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🕯 ABOUT HANUKKAH — THE FEAST OF LIGHTS
Hanukkah is an eight-day celebration also called the Feast of Dedication (John 10:22).
It commemorates when the Temple in Jerusalem was reclaimed, cleansed, and rededicated after foreign powers attempted to erase Israel’s faith and identity.
It is a season of:
• dedication
• renewal
• courage
• family unity
• miraculous light
• remembering the goodness of Yah across generations
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🔥 THE MIRACLE OF THE OIL
When the Maccabees restored the Temple, only one small jar of pure oil remained — barely enough for one night.
But Yah made it burn for eight days until new oil could be prepared.
This miracle is why we light the Hanukkiah today:
Eight nights. Eight flames. One everlasting testimony.
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✨ WHY WE KEEP HANUKKAH
Hanukkah reminds us:
• Light always overcomes darkness
• Identity is worth fighting for
• Faith survives every empire
• Yah keeps His people through every generation
• Dedication begins in the heart
• We are part of a long, beautiful story
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🧠 FUN HANUKKAH FACTS
• “Hanukkah” means “dedication.”
• The Hanukkah menorah has nine candles (eight nights + the shamash helper candle).
• Traditional foods include fried foods like latkes and sufganiyot to remember the oil.
• The dreidel game encodes Hebrew letters that mean:
“A Great Miracle Happened There.”
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This pocket-sized 11th-century manuscript contains the Greek text of the Psalms followed by Biblical poetry. It is an example of a group of manuscripts known as ‘marginal psalters’, so called because the margins are lavishly decorated with images related to the text of the Psalms.
What makes this Psalter special, is that many of its pages have survived the centuries with minimal whitewashing attempts or alteration: and depicts the Biblical Hebrew Israelites as they were, a dark skin, Negro people with dark bushy hair or Afros.
Manuscript: BL Additional 40731 The Bristol Psalter;
Folio: 240r; Dating: 1000-1100;
From: Istanbul, Turkey; Holding Institution: British Library
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/V....iewer.aspx?ref=add_m
In 2017 this troupe of Ghanaian pallbearers went viral following BBC Africa's coverage of their flamboyant coffin-carrying dances, garnering millions of views.
Three years later and the group has experienced a second round of internet fame, with social media users adopting the troupe as a dark-humoured symbol of death in the time of Covid-19.
BBC Africa's Sulley Lansah met up with the leader of the troupe to get his reaction to his new-found fame, and to see how he's coping during the pandemic.
Edited by Faith Ilevbare and Marko Zoric
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Black people have influenced music across the nation and the world sooo much, even in genres a lot of us may not even pay attention to. We dig into the history of black music.
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