Comparing Christmas And Hanukkah

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Two holiday’s have significant meaning to people’s life in this type of year. Although, Christmas and Hanukkah have a lot of different ways but are also alike in many ways too. They are both religious holidays and families getting together and celebrate the days. Although this may be true, Christmas and Hanukkah are different in many ways they are truly similar. They are both celebrated in December. Therefore, what people don’t really know is that Judaism and Christianity are both quite similar, they both believe in something. Even though, Christians believe in Jesus and Judaism believe in Messiah, as well they are both celebrated on the days they celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah. In fact, they both delight merchant classes. According to …show more content…

For the most part, Christmas is a Christianity holiday, and Hanukkah is a Jewish holiday. In case, you didn’t know Christmas in on December 25 every year. While Hanukkah this year is December 12- December 20, but changes every year. In the event that, Christmas was declared a national holiday on June 26, 1870, rather than like Hanukkah that the first Hanukkah was celebrated in the second century BC. As long as you know that you only get presents on Christmas, unless you have more than one. Hanukkah you get a presents only one a night. By the way, Christmas is a one day thing and Hanukkah is celebrated eight days. Above all, our big thing is that we have a Christmas tree, different from the menorah is the sacred thing. The menorah is a nine branched candelabrum, that gets lit every night. In contrast, everyone knows about every Christmas song while really everyone only knows the Dreidel song. The six difference is that Christmas is about Jesus’s birth, at the same time Hanukkah is about the victory of the Maccabees or Israelites over the Greek Ruler. On the other hand, the colors of Christmas are red and green, as much as Hanukkah’s colors are blue and white. Meanwhile people that celebrate Christmas, send Christmas cards, but Hanukkah send out holiday cards. Everybody celebrates them different and in unique