Commemorates the cleansing of the temple by the Maccabees

The Festival of Lights or Hanukkah (Chanukah) commemorates the rededication of the Second Temple in the second century B. C. after the Maccabean Revolt.

Answer and Explanation:

The eight-day Jewish festival known as Hanukkah or Chanukah remembers the rededication during the second century B. C. of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, where as indicated by legend Jews had ascended against their Greek-Syrian oppressors in the Maccabean Revolt.

The account of Hanukkah goes back more than 2,000 years to around the subsequent century