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Hanukkah
Blue and white, with silver, and one more candle flame each night for eight nights.
The colours of Hanukkah
Hanukkah, the festival of lights, recalls the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem in the second century before the common era. Each night one more candle is lit on a nine-branched lamp set in the window, until eight burn together. The candles are often sold in boxes of many colours. Blue and white have no basis in the religious law of the festival; they became its colours in the twentieth century, mainly in North America, where decorations were wanted to stand beside the red and green of Christmas. The pairing comes from the Israeli flag and, behind it, from the tallit, the white prayer shawl with stripes, and the ancient blue dye called tekhelet. Chocolate coins are wrapped in gold foil.
#0038B8Hanukkah blueThe blue of the Israeli flag and of the old tekhelet dye.#FFFFFFTallit whiteThe prayer shawl and the flag.#C0C4CCMenorah silverSilver lamps and decorations.#F5B83DFlame goldThe candles, and foil-wrapped coins.Values are fair approximations, not official shades.
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Also part of it, and being written: Silver (Lamps and decorations.).
Written by the Rang desk with AI assistance. Background: "Hanukkah" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.