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For those of you who don’t know, Hanukkah is the celebration of a historical military battle and the re-dedication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem after the Maccabees led a rebellion and forced the Seleucid’s (Syrian-Greeks) out of the city. when it came time to rededicate the Second Temple, which had been defiled by order of the Seleucid King, there was a problem. Very little holy oil remained to light the menorah (candelabrum) in the Temple. The menorah was supposed never go out, but there was only enough oil to burn for one day. It would take eight days to make more oil.
According to the Talmud (written about 600 years after these events, so this might be legend), the oil burned for the whole week that was needed to make more oil. This is the miracle that Hanukkah celebrates.
My Jewish holiday paper dolls are very dear to me, because I didn’t have these sorts of paper dolls when I was a child. Given the current rise in antisemitism, it seemed especially important to create Hanukkah paper dolls this year.
So, the plan is that there are two dolls today and then I’ll do clothing for the next few posts, along with some Hanukkah accessories including latkes and a dreidel. I might try to draw gelt, but I’m not sure how to do that… I digress. The paper dolls are inspired by rag dolls. In my head, the smaller doll is the doll of the larger doll, but you can have your own ideas on that one.
One the last night, the 14th, I’ll post a PDF with all 8 pages for easy printing.