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Hanukkah always comes during finals. I finished celebrating at home, but I failed to finish it here.
A week-ish late:
The 4th Night:
Judas Defeats Timothy and Bacchides
in encounters with the forces of Timothy and Bacchides they killed more than twenty thousand of them and got possession of some exceedingly high strongholds, and they divided a very large amount of plunder, giving to those who had been tortured and to the orphans and widows, and also to the aged, shares equal to their own.

Ah, a regular Robin Hood.

The 5th Night
Last Campaign of Antiochus Epiphanes
Transported with rage, he conceived the idea of turning upon the Jews the injury done by those who had put him to flight; so he ordered his charioteer to drive without stopping until he completed the journey. But the judgment of heaven rode with him! For in his arrogance he said, "When I get there I will make Jerusalem a cemetery of Jews."

and now it is a cemetery of Jews.

The 6th Night
Antiochus Makes a Promise to God
in addition to all this he also would become a Jew and would visit every inhabited place to proclaim the power of God.

The 7th NIght
Antiochus’s Letter and Death
So the murderer and blasphemer, having endured the more intense suffering, such as he had inflicted on others, came to the end of his life by a most pitiable fate, among the mountains in a strange land. 2

The 8th Night
Purification of the Temple
Now Maccabeus and his followers, the Lord leading them on, recovered the temple and the city; 2 they tore down the altars that had been built in the public square by the foreigners, and also destroyed the sacred precincts. 3It happened that on the same day on which the sanctuary had been profaned by the foreigners, the purification of the sanctuary took place, that is, on the twenty-fifth day of the same month, which was Chislev. 6 They celebrated it for eight days with rejoicing.

The 25th day of Chislev is usually between the 5th and 20th of December. During these 8 days of celebrating, the Maccabees only had enough oil to last one night, the flame burned for 8 nights of celebrating, which is why the candles of the Menorah are supposed to stay lit for the 8 nights.