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# Hanukkah for Gentile noobs

- Hanukkah story is given towards the end of 1 Macabees
    - Good translation of 1 Macabees: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Maccabees+1&version=RSVCE

- Exposition by some solid messianic jews: https://www.torahclass.com/bible-studies/other-studies/688-Hanukkah-is-for-christians

- Good devotions for each night: https://www.jewishvoice.org/learn/messianic-chanukah-devotionals
    - What I like about thethis one is that it gives prayers to pray in English that aren't weird. By contrast,the traditional prayers talk about lighting the Hanukkah candles as God commanded, but God commanded this nowhere, so that's just wrong.
- Good psalms to sing on Hanukkah
    - Psalm 2: https://allsaints-church.com/files/music-pdf/4.pdf
        - Soundtrack here: https://allsaints-church.com/psalms.aspx
    - Psalm 46: http://psalms.seedbed.com/psalm-46/#1498047339469-2d2aa928-b7ae
        - I like the "St. Columbia" setting
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