Chanukah Resources

This section will enlighten you with Chanukah links, classes, and videos that will truly enhance your joyous holiday.

NLE Morasha Syllabus Classes

• Chanukah l: Illuminating an Eternal Conflict
• Chanukah II: The Chanukah Miracles – How They Were Triggered and What They Teach
• Chanukah III: It’s All Up to Us – Spreading the Light

NLE Thinking Gemara Shiur

• How Many Candles Do We Light on Chanukah?

Resources

• Adam Sandler’s Hannukah Song in Halacha & Hashkafa, by Rabbi Natan Farber
• Chanuka Timeline
• The Chanukah Map – Sites of the Maccabees 166-161 BCE
• A Historical Background of Chanukah, by Rabbi Dovid Sapirman
• A Digest of 8 Divrei Torah for Chanukah, by Rabbi Efrem Goldberg
• Torah Wellsprings – Vayeshev – Chanukah, by Rabbi Elimelech Biderman
• The Chanukah Candle – Havdalah Hullabaloo, by Rabbi Yehuda Spitz
• Chanukah To-Go, by YUTorah Online
• A Sephardi Chanukah Resource Guide, by the Mofet Institute
• Chanukah Resources from impactfulcoaching.com
• Chanukah Coloring Pages
• Chanuka’s Biblical Roots
• Olives – Olive Oil & Chanukah, by Halachically Speaking
• Songs and Dances for Chanukah
• Chanukah Brachos
• A Thorough and Thoughtful Thought for Chanukah, based on a shmuez from R. Chaim Shmulevitz
• NCSY’s Chanukah Collection, by NCSY
• 8 Insights for 8 Nights of Chanukah, by NCSY
• How to Light the Chanukah Menorah, by NCSY
• Chanukah Pocket Torah, by NCSY
• Reb Yitzhak Kofman’s Yimeih Shemoneh gives 500 answers to Rabbi Joseph Caro of why Hanukkah is 8 days if miracle was only 7 days.
• Placemat Coloring Page, by Between Carpools.
• Hilchos Chanukah booklet by Rabbi Binyomin Karman
• Inyanei Chanukah booklet by Rabbi Binyomin Karman
• The Dreidel Olympics, by Rabbi Tzvi Moshe Schultz

Articles

• Why was the Menorah Burning for 8 Days Such a Big Miracle? by Aryeh Rosenzweig
• Why is Chanukah Hardly Mentioned in the Mishna and Talmud? by Rabbi Yissochar Frand
• The History of Hanukkah They Didn’t Teach You in Hebrew School by Rabbi Pinchas Landis
• The Order of Lighting the Hanukkah Candles, by J. Jean Ajdler
• Why Dreidel?, by Rabbi Ephraim Nissenbaum
• Guests and Travelers on Chanukah, by torahmusings.com
• Who are the Chanukah Heroes who Saved our People?, by Rabbi Gedalia Kauffman
• 8 Surprising Lessons from the Laws of Chanukah, by Rabbi Yisrael Rutman
• The Piercing Shaft of Light, by Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller
• Light in the Darkness, by Rabbi Hanoch Teller
• Chanukah Cleaning, by Rabbi Benjamin Yudin
• The Opportunity of Chanukah & Chanukah: A Time of Renewal, by Rabbi Mayer Twersky
• Chanukah: The Battle Over the Oral Torah by Rabbi Yehoshua Hartman
• The Essence of Chanukah & Chanukah: Idealism and Maximalism, by Rabbi Michael Rosensweig
• The Dual Victory of Chanukah, by Rabbi Zvi Sobolofsky
• Where to Place the Menorah, by Rabbi Hershel Schachter
• The Miracle of Chanukah, by Rabbi Lawrence Kelemen
• The Chanukah Question, by Sarah Yocheved Rigler
• Chanukah: Optimal Living, Optimal Judaism, by Rabbi Yisroel Isaacs
• How To Get Wax Off Your Menorah, by Elissa Goldstein
• The Hole Truth About Sufganiyot, by Carol Green Ungar
• Money DOES Grow on Trees-Chocolate Chanuka Gelt, by Shira Schmidt