- The word chanukah (חֲנֻכָּה) means “dedication,” a word that shares the same root as the Hebrew the word chinukh (חִנּוּךְ), meaning “education.” Just as the Maccabees fought and died for the sake of Torah truth, so we must wage war within ourselves and break the stronghold of apathy and indifference that the present world system engenders (Rom. 12:2; Eph. 6:11-18). We must take time to educate ourselves by studying the Torah and New Testament, for by so doing we will be rededicated to the service of the truth and enabled to resist assimilation into the corrupt world. “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world…” (1 John 2:15).
Does your community require the observance of the Jewish feasts by participants?
We encourage our community to participate in the feasts because they teach us so much about Jesus. Almost all of our community chooses to participate.