Editing Hanukkah (section)

=== Special additions to daily prayers ===
{{quote box|align=right|width=30%|quote="We thank You also for the miraculous deeds and for the redemption and for the mighty deeds and the saving acts wrought by You, as well as for the wars which You waged for our ancestors in ancient days at this season. In the days of the Hasmonean Mattathias, son of Johanan the high priest, and his sons, when the iniquitous Greco-Syrian kingdom rose up against Your people Israel, to make them forget Your Torah and to turn them away from the ordinances of Your will, then You in your abundant mercy rose up for them in the time of their trouble, pled their cause, executed judgment, avenged their wrong, and delivered the strong into the hands of the weak, the many into the hands of few, the impure into the hands of the pure, the wicked into the hands of the righteous, and insolent ones into the hands of those occupied with Your Torah. Both unto Yourself did you make a great and holy name in Thy world, and unto Your people did You achieve a great deliverance and redemption. Whereupon your children entered the sanctuary of Your house, cleansed Your temple, purified Your sanctuary, kindled lights in Your holy courts, and appointed these eight days of Hanukkah in order to give thanks and praises unto Your holy name."|source=Translation of ''Al ha-Nissim''<ref>{{cite journal|journal=New Era Illustrated Magazine|volume=5|year=1905|page=621|via=[[Google Books]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CHwpAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA621|title=Chanukkah, or the Feast of Dedication|last=Singer|first=Isidore|author-link=Isidore Singer}}</ref>}}

An addition is made to the "''hoda'ah''" (thanksgiving) benediction in the [[Amidah]] (thrice-daily prayers), called ''[[Al HaNissim]]'' ("On/about the Miracles").<ref>''[[Shulkhan Arukh]]'' ''[[Orach Chayim]]'' 682:1</ref> This addition refers to the victory achieved over the Syrians by the Hasmonean Mattathias and his sons.<ref name="ou.org">{{cite web|url=https://www.ou.org/holidays/chanukah/chanukah_with_torah_tidbits/ |title=Chanukah with Torah Tidbits |date=29 June 2006 |publisher=Orthodox Union |access-date=6 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/al-hanisim-concerning-the-miracles/ |title=Al Hanisim: Concerning the Miracles |last=Nulman |first=Cantor Macy |access-date=6 October 2018}}</ref><ref name=JewishEncyclopedia>{{Jewish Encyclopedia |title=Ḥanukkah |url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7233-hanukkah|first=Kohler |last=Kaufmann |inline=1}}</ref>

The same prayer is added to the grace after meals. In addition, the ''[[Hallel]]'' (praise) Psalms<ref>{{bibleverse||Psalm|113–118|HE}}</ref> are sung during each morning service and the ''[[Tachanun]]'' penitential prayers are omitted.<ref name="ou.org"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ou.org/torah/halacha/hashoneh-halachos/tues_02_07_12/ |title=133. Days on Which Tachanun is Omitted |publisher=Orthodox Union |access-date=6 October 2018 |last=Abramowitz |first=Rabbi Jack|work=OU Torah }}</ref>

The Torah is read every day in the [[shacharit]] morning services in [[synagogue]], on the first day beginning from Numbers 6:22 (according to some customs, Numbers 7:1), and the last day ending with Numbers 8:4. Since Hanukkah lasts eight days it includes at least one, and sometimes two, [[Shabbat|Jewish Sabbaths]] (Saturdays). The weekly [[Parsha|Torah portion]] for the first Sabbath is almost always ''[[Miketz]]'', telling of [[Joseph (Hebrew Bible)|Joseph]]'s dream and his enslavement in [[Ancient Egypt|Egypt]]. The ''[[Haftarah]]'' reading for the first Sabbath Hanukkah is Zechariah 2:14 – Zechariah 4:7. When there is a second Sabbath on Hanukkah, the ''Haftarah'' reading is from 1 Kings 7:40–50.

The Hanukkah ''menorah'' is also kindled daily in the synagogue, at night with the blessings and in the morning without the blessings.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.torahmusings.com/2010/12/chanuka-lighting-in-shul/ |title=Chanuka – Lighting in Shul |website=www.torahmusings.com |date=7 December 2010 |last=Enkin |first=Rabbi Ari |access-date=6 October 2018}}</ref>

The menorah is not lit during Shabbat, but rather prior to the beginning of Shabbat as described above and not at all during the day.
During the [[Middle Ages]] "[[Megillat Antiochus]]" was read in the [[Italian rite Jews|Italian]] synagogues on Hanukkah just as the [[Book of Esther]] is read on [[Purim]]. It still forms part of the liturgy of the [[Yemenite Jews]].<ref name="pvgsyw">{{cite web|url=http://customerservant.com/2006/12/16/the-scroll-of-the-hasmoneans/|title=The Scroll Of The Hasmoneans|author=Rahel| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070528035707/http://customerservant.com/2006/12/16/the-scroll-of-the-hasmoneans/|archive-date=28 May 2007}}</ref>