Chanukah is a celebration of the triumph of light over darkness, purity and sincerity, over conformism and adaptation, spirituality over fatal materialism.History and Symbol II of the 2nd century BC in Judea, was under the control of the Greco-Syrian Empire of Seleucids, flared up. The reason for this was not so much the desire to ascertain political independence, but how indignant they were of cruel moves on the Jewish religion. They became absolutely impatient during the emperor Antiochus Epiphanes, who everywhere planted the cult of the Greek gods (and, in the grave assimilation of the latter, also his humble person), and the observance of the laws of the Torah is forbidden under the death penalty.