Sentence examples for Rededication of the temple from inspiring English sources

Hanukkah commemorates rededication of the temple in Jerusalem in 165 B.C. (Photo by Menahem Kahana/Agence France-Presse -- Getty Images).

The rededication of the temple was a punk act; we were fighting for our homes, our lifestyle and our beliefs.

What ensued in addition to the military victory, was the subsequent rededication of the temple, in which a lamp in the temple with one day's worth of oil lasted for eight days.

The winter holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after a group of Jewish warriors called the Hasmoneans defeated the Syrians who had defiled the temple and attempted to force the Jews to assimilate.

According to the Talmud (Shabbat 21b), the ritually pure oil available at the rededication of the Temple was sufficient for only one day's light but miraculously lasted for eight days; hence the eight-day celebration.

Hanukkah commemorates the Maccabean (Hasmonean) victories over the forces of the Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes (reigned 175 164 bce) and the rededication of the Temple on Kislev 25, 164 bce.

Later, the captives — thousands of them for a rededication of the Great Temple at Tenochtitlán (now Mexico City) in 1478 — were led to high platforms, where priests tore out and displayed their still-beating hearts.

During the annual eight-day festival of Hanukkah, which began on Sunday evening, Jews light a nine-branch menorah to commemorate the rededication of the Second Temple after a successful revolt against the Syrian-Greek Seleucid empire in 165 B.C.

Later, the captives thousands of them for a rededication of the Great Temple at Tenochtitlán (now Mexico City) in 1478 were led to high platforms, where priests tore out and displayed their still-beating hearts.

He was a descendant of Simon Maccabaeus, a brother of Judas Maccabaeus who led the revolt that resulted in the rededication of the second temple in Jerusalem and the eight-day celebration of Hanukkah, which starts this year at sundown on Dec. 8.

Hanukkah commemorates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the second century B.C.E.