Hanukkah is a holiday commemorating the rededication of which structures on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem?
Hanukkah Hanukkah ( ; Hebrew: חֲנֻכָּה‎ "khanuká ", Tiberian: "khanuká ", usually spelled חנוכה , pronounced ] in Modern Hebrew, ] or ] in Yiddish; a transliteration also romanized as Chanukah or Ḥanukah) is a Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple (the Second Temple) in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire. Hanukkah is observed for eight nights and days, starting on the 25th day of Kislev according to the Hebrew calendar, which may occur at any time from late November to late December in the Gregorian calendar. It is also known as the Festival of Lights and the Feast of Dedication.
Passover Passover or Pesach ( ; from Hebrew "Pesah, Pesakh"), is an important, biblically-derived Jewish holiday. Jews celebrate Passover as a commemoration of their liberation by God from slavery in ancient Egypt and their freedom as a nation under the leadership of Moses. It commemorates the story of the Exodus as described in the Hebrew Bible, especially in the Book of Exodus, in which the Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt. According to standard biblical chronology, this event would have taken place at about 1300 BCE (AM 2450).