{"id":30621,"date":"2009-12-15T14:00:41","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/production.ou.org\/holidays\/chanukah\/the_menorah_and_the_sukkah\/"},"modified":"2017-08-21T18:42:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T18:42:15","slug":"the_menorah_and_the_sukkah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/the_menorah_and_the_sukkah\/","title":{"rendered":"The Menorah and The Sukkah"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JewishMishnas Chayim for Parshas Mikeitz & Chanukah – Last week we discussed the famous question posed by the Beis Yosef concerning the duration of the Yom Tov<\/i> of Chanukah. True, the oil burned for eight days, but only seven of those days seem to have comprised the miracle, as the kohanim<\/i> started out with enough oil to last one full day. Why, then, does the festival last a full eight days instead of the seven that correspond to the miracle? Read the text version<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mishnas Chayim for Parshas Mikeitz & Chanukah – Last week we discussed the famous question posed by the Beis Yosef concerning the duration of the Yom Tov of Chanukah. True, the oil burned for eight days, but only seven of those days seem to have comprised the miracle, as the kohanim started out with enough […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":897,"featured_media":36575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[344],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chanukah","post_format-post-format-audio"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Menorah and The Sukkah - Jewish Holidays<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"One of the answers to the Beit Yosef's question of why Chanukah is 8 days, not 7 is that it was modeled after Sukkot, since they are fundamentally related.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/the_menorah_and_the_sukkah\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Menorah and The Sukkah - 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