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Hanukkah rituals
Hanukkah is celebrated by a series of rituals that are performed every
day throughout the 8-day holiday. Some are family-based and others are
communal. There are special additions to the daily prayer service, and
a section is added to the blessing after meals. Hanukkah is not a
"Sabbath-like" holiday, and there is no obligation to refrain from
activities that are forbidden on the Sabbath, as specified in the
Shulkhan Arukh.[23] People go to work as usual, but may leave early in
order to be home to kindle the lights at nightfall. There is no
religious reason for schools to be closed, although, in Israel,
schools close for the whole week of Hanukkah. Many families exchange
gifts each night, and fried foods are eaten.
Kindling the
Hanukkah lights |
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A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material
whose constituent atoms, molecules, or ions are arranged in an orderly
repeating pattern extending in all three spatial dimensions. The
scientific study of crystals and crystal formation is crystallography.
The process of crystal formation via mechanisms of crystal growth is
called crystallization or solidification. The word crystal is derived
from the ancient Greek word κρύσταλλος (krustallos), which had the
same meaning, but according to the ancient understanding of crystal.
At root it means anything congealed by freezing, such as ice. The word
once referred particularly to quartz, or "rock crystal". |
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