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Hanukkah is known as The Festival of Lights. What other title is it sometimes referred to as?

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Hanukkah is sometimes referred to as The Festival of Rededication or The Festival of Dedication. The festival commemorates the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem after it was liberated from the Greeks in 165 BCE.
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Hanukkah is sometimes referred to as the "Festival of Dedication" or "Feast of Dedication." This alternative title highlights the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, a central event in the Hanukkah story.
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Hanukkah is also sometimes referred to as the Feast of Dedication or the Feast of Rededication, as it celebrates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem during the Maccabean Revolt.
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Hanukkah is sometimes referred to as the "Feast of Dedication" or "Chanukah HaBayit" in Hebrew, which means "the dedication of the house." This title refers to the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, which took place during the Maccabean Revolt in the 2nd century BCE and is celebrated during the holiday of Hanukkah.
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