Why Is Hanukkah Known as the Festival of Lights?

December 6, 2018

Two children lighting Hanukkah candles together.

On today’s program, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein explains that Hanukkah is known as the “Festival of Lights” because of the eternal light that stayed lit for eight days with only one flask of oil to keep it burning.

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