Tonight is the 1st night of Hanukkah…. 🕎 🇮🇱
The Festival of Lights. ✨
Celebrated during the week of 25th of Kislev (December)
25th kislev (December) is also the day that Moses completed and dedicated the sanctuary Temple (Mishkan) in the desert, where YHWH , God himself descended and dwelt on the earth.
Hanukkah is a holiday that Jesus (Yeshua) also celebrated in memory of the Rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and the Miracle of the Light that burned for 8 nights as told in the Books of Maccabees 1 and 2. (Catholic Bible only)
The eight-day rededication of the temple is described in 1 Maccabees, though the miracle of the oil does not appear here. A story similar in character, and older in date, is the one alluded to in 2 Maccabees according to which the relighting of the altar fire by Nehemiah was due to a miracle which occurred on the 25th of Kislev, and which appears to be given as the reason for the selection of the same date for the rededication of the altar by Judah Maccabee. The above account in 1 Maccabees, as well as 2 Maccabees[23] portrays the feast as a delayed observation of the eight-day Feast of Booths (Sukkot); similarly 2 Maccabees explains the length of the feast as "in the manner of the Feast of Booths"
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanukkah#Festival_of_Lights
Hanukkah Blessing over the 1st night candle …
Baruch atah Adonai Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, asher kid'shanu b-mitzvotav, v-tzivanu l'hadlik ner shel Hanukkah.
Blessed are you, Oh Lord, Our God, King of the Universe, who makes us holy through Your commandments, and commands us to light the Hanukkah lights.
Hanukkah in the New Testament : John 10 : 22
Then came the Festival of Hanukkah at Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was in the temple courts walking in Solomon’s Colonnade. The Jews who were there gathered around him, saying, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”
Jesus answered, “I did tell you, but you do not believe. The works I do in my Father’s name testify about me, but you do not believe because you are not my sheep. My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all[c]; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand.
I and the Father are One.”
Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?”
“We are not stoning you for any good work,” they replied, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.”
Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I have said you are “gods”’[d]?
If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be set aside— what about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’? Do not believe me unless I do the works of my Father. But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.” Again they tried to seize him, but he escaped their grasp.
Then Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing in the early days. There he stayed, and many people came to him. They said, “Though John never performed a sign, all that John said about this man was true.” And in that place many believed in Jesus.
Source: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2010&version=NIV