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Hanukkah began after the Jews defeated the Greeks in 165 BCE; it celebrates both the miraculous military victory of the small, ill-equipped Jewish army over the ruling Greek Syrians, who had banned the Jewish religion and desecrated the Temple; as well as the miracle of the small cruse of consecrated oil, which burned for eight days in the Temple’s menorah instead of just one.
