Chanukkah Home Celebration Kit
The following resources are provided as a guide for celebrating the eight days of Chanukah in your home.
Included here:
- Table of Contents
- Eight Reasons Why Gentile Believers Should Celebrate Chanukah
- A Celebration Guide for Each Night (including blessings, meditations and activities)
- The Chanukah Story
- Chanukah…A Time for Re-dedication (an explanation for believers and unbelievers)
- Traditional Chanukah Food Recipes
- Instructions for Playing Dreidel (a traditional Chanukah game)
What you’ll need:
- A little time set aside each night at sundown
- 8 Candles, plus one for lighting the others (A “chanukiah” and Chanukah candles are designed especially for this purpose, but are not required.)
- A Dreidel (available on any Judaica website or on Amazon)
- Candy for playing Dreidel
- A Bible
Chanukah commemorates a story in which Jews are told to convert or die. It makes little sense to me why you would think Christians should celebrate the holiday, since you also want us to convert.
November 27, 2015 at 3:40 pm
Jews have been told to convert or die many times in history. As I’m sure you know, Chanukah commemorates this Jewish victory in reclaiming the temple. Messianic Christians don’t believe Jews need to convert to Christianity. We acknowledge the Jewish Messiah, Yeshua, as a savior for all mankind and desire that Jews will as well. All the original (thousands of) followers of Yeshua were Jewish; they evangelized Gentiles to also follow the Jewish Messiah; when this mixed group was told to convert or die is when Christianity split off from it’s Jewish roots. The goal of this website is to help Christians reconnect with the Jewish roots of their faith, not to get Jews to convert to Christianity. Being a nature lover, you might appreciate this explanation. I appreciate your comment. Thanks for visiting my blog.
January 24, 2016 at 10:28 pm
Thank you for sharing. Happy Hanukkah! I really appreciate your explanation. So true.
December 19, 2019 at 6:08 pm