Why Do the Date and Spelling of Hanukkah/Chanukkah Change?
instance, has books titles Isaias, Jeremias, Ezechiel, and Habacuc; beginning with the Jerusalem Bible in 1966, however, Roman Catholic translations have in general used the generally accepted spellings such as Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Habakkuk. Why does the date of Hanukkah change? The date of Hanukkah, like the dates of other Jewish holidays, changes from year to year because the Jewish calendar (more) is a lunar calendar, based on the moon, while the Gregorian calendar in general use in the Western world, is based on the sun. That is the reason that the date of the start of Hanukkah changes on the Gregorian calendar, because the two calendars do not fit. Holidays of Islam, by the way, change from year to year in the Gregorian calendar, because the Islamic calendar is also lunar. The Christian festival of Easter changes because… oh, well, I wrote an entire article on that (here). For more information on Hanukkah You can learn about the Maccabees and the troubled period in whi
