When is the Festival of Lights in Loveland?
LOVELAND – Loveland residents are invited to celebrate the eight-day Festival of Lights during a menorah lighting and Hanukkah celebration downtown. The event will be at 5:30 p.m. Monday at the Loveland Museum/Gallery, 503 N. Lincoln Ave. “This is going to be the second time that we’re doing the menorah lighting in Loveland,” said Rabbi Yerachmiel Gorelik, co-director of the Chabad Jewish Center of Northern Colorado. “It’s just open to everyone. We look forward to sharing it with everyone. It brings a wonderful level of diversity and energy to Loveland and enables the Jewish people to feel more at home there, allowing them to celebrate their Jewish holiday.” During the menorah lighting and Hanukkah celebration, participants can enjoy hot latkes (potato pancakes) and doughnuts, Hanukkah music, a raffle and dreidels (spinning tops) and gelt (gifts of money.) Loveland Mayor Cecil Gutierrez and members of the Jewish community will participate in the lighting. On Monday, the fourth of eight
THE the Jewish festival of light, is an eight day occasion, marking the rededicatin of the Holy Jewish temple in Jerusalam during the Maccanbean revolt in second century BCE. Also known as Chanukkah, Hanukkah celebrations begn on the twenty fifth day of Kislev, as per the old Hebrew calendar and can fall either in late November or early December each year. The celebrations begin on Friday, December 11. Those of Hebrew faith celebrate Hannukah with lighting candles on a special candelabrum, the nine-branched Menorah or Hanukiah, with one extra light on each night of the holiday, progressing to eight on the final night. An extra light called a shamash (meaning guard or servant) is also lit with these, usually above or below the eight. The shamash symbolically supplies light that may be used for some secular purpose. It marks a time long ago, when the Jews were ruled by the Greek. While earlier, the Greeks had allowed them to practice their religious beliefs. This changed after the Seleui
Loveland residents are invited to celebrate the eight-day Festival of Lights during a menorah lighting and Hanukkah celebration downtown. The event will be at 5:30 p.m. Monday at the Loveland Museum/Gallery, 503 N. Lincoln Ave. “This is going to be the second time that we’re doing the menorah lighting in Loveland,” said Rabbi Yerachmiel Gorelik, co-director of the Chabad Jewish Center of Northern Colorado. “It’s just open to everyone. We look forward to sharing it with everyone. It brings a wonderful level of diversity and energy to Loveland and enables the Jewish people to feel more at home there, allowing them to celebrate their Jewish holiday.” Sources: http://www.coloradoan.
