Hanuka candles?

Question

Hanuka candles?

Answer 1

1 candle plus the center candle for each day. so day one is 1+1, day 2 is 2+1, etc.

Answer 2

ok... for chanukah, one starts by lighting the 'shammash' or 'servant' candle (this is so that if one has the menorah in a room without much other light, that the room is NOT illuminated by the light of the menorah, which is forbidden. if the shammash is lit, then the light from that is enough to prevent any work, of any type, from being done by the rest of the lights)

after the shammash is lit, then one starts by lighting the candle, all the way to the RIGHT (as one is facing the menorah), and lights it. the second day, one lights the candle, to the left of the previous day, as well as the one from the previous day.... each day follows in turn, with the newest candle being lit first, leading to the previous ones.



so, the quick answer is that one lights 9 candles, the 8 for the 8 days of chanukah, and one for the shammash. the longer answer would be to add them all up, and figure that you need 44 candles for the entire holiday.

Answer 3

You light 8 candles total. If you follow Hillel's school of teaching, (and most of us Jews do,) then you start with one candle and light one more each day until, on the last day, you have all 8 shining in your menorah! The additional candle each day symbolizes how, as you go on, you're supposed to work to become more holy than you were the day before. (Little known fact.)

Answer 4

On the first day you light 2 candles. You always add 1 to the day of Hanukkah it is. Example: 1st day of H=2 candles. 4th day of H=5 candles.You always have one more (which you put in the center) because you need the candle to light the other ones.

Answer 5

there are 8 days, but there are 9 candles because 1 candle is kept in the center and this is the candle that is used to light all of the other candles. You use this candle to light 1 candle each night, and when those candles are lit, it is placed in the center (which is usually the highest holder) of the menorah while it is still lit with the other candles, but does not count as an actual day.

Answer 6

there are 8 candles and a shamus. The shamus gets lit and it always lights the 8 candles.

Answer 7

Hanukkah candle holders are made for nine candles. Eight colored candles with one white candle slightly elevated above the others.



The word 'hanukkah' means dedication, and the first time it appears in the Bible is Ezra 6. In the N.T. it's in John 10. The modern Jews called their Festival of Lights, "hanukkah", but it has nothing to do with the Biblical Feast of Dedication which Jesus observed.



For Christians who want to keep the custom of Jesus, the Biblical 'hanukkah' is on Adar 3 (Feb.22) for one day only. On the evening of February 22, light the white candle which represents Jesus, the 'Light of the world' first. Then light the eight candles one at a time as someone reads aloud from 2 Peter 1:1-10.



Notice there are eight attributes Christians are dedicated to acquiring. The Feast of Dedication (hunakkah) is forty days before Passover. Does that sound familiar? The enemy has forty days of Lent before Easter. Satan always counterfeits the real thing.(and makes it fun)

Answer 8

First night - 1 candle

Second night - 2 candles

Third night - 3 candles

Eight night - 8 candles...

We don't light the candles with a match. We light them with an extra candle that we call - SHAMASH.

We light the SHAMASH with a match and then we light the candles with the SHAMASH and leave the SHAMASH to burn with the other candles. So...

First night - 1 candle plus the SHAMASH

Second night - 2 candles plus the SHAMASH

Third night - 3 candles plus the SHAMASH

Eight night - 8 candles plus the SHAMASH...



That is the idea.



Happy Hanukkah!!!