Commentary: Hanukkah begins at sundown, which in sacred Michigan will happen at 5:00 P.M./1700 hours. It is a fascinating historical curiosity that the biblical basis for Hanukkah is found in the First & Second Books of Maccabees, which are part of the Christian Bible, but not the Hebrew Bible. The current Jewish observance of Hanukkah derives from extra-biblical sources.
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