As Hanukkah begins, here is a look at its history and traditions

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The Festival of Lights, Hanukkah, will begin at sunset Dec. 18 and be celebrated until Dec. 26. Today we look at the origins and some traditions of the observance.

After two years the Jews had driven the empire out of Jerusalem. Judah called on his followers to cleanse the Second Temple, rebuild its altar and light its gold menorah, whose seven branches represented wisdom, light and divine inspiration and were meant to be kept burning every night. Rosh Hashanah: The Jewish New Year, the beginning of ten days of penitence or teshuvah culminating on Yom Kippur. Traditionally celebrated with sweet or round foods such as apples and honey, and the blowing of the shofar, a hollowed-out ram’s horn. Jews began year 5783 in September.

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