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Hanukkah Lamp
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A prayer (Ha-nerot halalu anu madlikin (“These lights we burn”), usually recited after the blessings for lighting the Hanukkah candles, is inscribed on the back panel of this Hanukkah lamp from…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Holy Roman Empire (Germany)

Date:

1574

Subjects:

Ritual objects, Ritual & observance, Holidays, Hanukkah, Jewish languages

Categories:

Ritual Objects, Decorative arts
Oil lamp with row of eight cups at the bottom carved with Hebrew inscription and animal heads, and sides resembling buildings.
The Holy Fire
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The Holy Fire, one of the greatest examples of religious resistance in the Warsaw ghetto, explores a theological explanation for Jewish suffering during the Holocaust.

Contributor:

Kalonymus Kalman Shapira

Places:

Warsaw, General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Apocalypse, Eschatology, Hanukkah, Death, Sermons

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Sermons
Black and white image of an Orthodox Jewish man wearing spectacles.
Apocalyptic Visions
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In the first year of King Belshazzar of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and a vision of his mind in bed; afterward he wrote down the dream. Beginning the account, Daniel related the following…

Places:

Land of Israel (Israel)

Date:

Hellenistic Period, 4th–2nd Century BCE

Subjects:

Angels, demons & deities, Afterlife, Mysticism, Hanukkah, Hellenism, Apocalypse, Prophets & prophecy

Categories:

Prophetic Literature, Apocalyptic