Hanukkah is based on the Hebrew calendar, which uses lunar and solar elements. Therefore, the date shifts each year. Hanukkah is celebrated on the 25th day of Kislev in the Hebrew calendar.

Hanukkah is based on the Hebrew calendar, which uses lunar and solar elements. Therefore, the date shifts each year. Hanukkah is celebrated on the 25th day of Kislev in the Hebrew calendar.

In Part 1 we focus on the Hebrew words yayin and ... Yonah Ibn Janach, and the Radak) understand yayin to represent a triliteral root of its own (YOD-YOD-NUN), Rabbi Shlomo Pappenheim ...

Ever since I was a little kid, I’d been drawn to the idea of being a nun. But in Rome, Ga., where I grew up surrounded by Southern Baptists and Methodists, becoming a nun seemed as likely as ...

Nun: Absolutely nothing happens. Nun stands for the Yiddish word nul, which means zero. It's time for the player to your left to take a spin Gimel: You get to take the whole pot!

A dreidel had four sides, each with a different Hebrew letter on it: Nun, gimel, hey and shin. The letters stand for the Hebrew phrase "Nes gadol haya sham," which means "A great miracle happened ...