Wikipedia's first sentence called it “aggadah depicted in the babylonian talmud”. Today it says “sixth-century aggadah depicted in the babylonian talmud as one of the reasons for hanukkah”.
Measured, not asserted. Every count, date and revision on this page was taken from Wikipedia's own history and checked against the live article. The words quoted are theirs.
Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-03.
We saved snapshots of this article over twenty years; you are reading the 2025 one. Red dashes: removed from Wikipedia since.Pale dots: rewritten; the numbered note shows what it says now.Red text: written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot.1 tap a number or a side note to jump between them
The opening as it read in 2025
Aggadah in the Talmud depicting a miracle of Hanukkah Al HaNissim prayer, said every Hanukkah to commemorate the miracle Miracle of the cruse of oil ( Hebrew : נֵס פַּךְ הַשֶּׁמֶן ), or the Miracle of Hanukkah , is an Aggadah depicted in the Babylonian Talmud as one of the reasons for Hanukkah . In the story, the miracle occurred after the liberation of the Temple in Jerusalem during the Maccabean Revolt , and it describes the finding of a jug of pure oil that was to be enough to light the lamp for one day, but that lasted for eight days. There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).
This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 1266331811.
The opening as it stood in 2015
Miracle of the cruse of oil ( Hebrew : נס פך השמן ) is an Aggadah depicted in the Babylonian Talmud , Tractate Shabbat , as one of the reasons for Hanukkah . The story of the miracle, as described in the Talmud, occurred after the liberation of the Temple in Jerusalem during the Maccabean Revolt , and describes how the finding of a jug of pure oil that was to be enough to light the lamp for one day; instead, it lasted for eight days.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 646611703.
The opening as it stood in 2020
Miracle of the cruse of oil ( ) is an Aggadah depicted in the Babylonian Talmud as one of the reasons for Hanukkah . The story of the miracle, as described in the Talmud, occurred after the liberation of the Temple in Jerusalem during the Maccabean Revolt , and describes how the finding of a jug of pure oil that was to be enough to light the lamp for one day; instead, it lasted for eight days.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 946305513.
The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Aggadah in the Talmud depicting a miracle of Hanukkah Al HaNissim prayer, said every Hanukkah to commemorate the miracle Miracle of the cruse of oil ( ), or the Miracle of Hanukkah , is an Aggadah depicted in the Babylonian Talmud as one of the reasons for Hanukkah .In the story, the miracle occurred after the liberation of the Temple in Jerusalem during the Maccabean Revolt , and it describes the finding of a jug of pure oil that was to be enough to light the lamp for one day, but that lasted for eight days.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 1170666187.
Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “aggadah depicted in the babylonian talmud”. Today it says “sixth-century aggadah depicted in the babylonian talmud as one of the reasons for hanukkah”. Read the current article and compare.
2015
2020
Oct '23
2025
Counts in the opening at each snapshot. Green: the word gained ground. Red: it was cut. Grey: no change.
What Wikipedia says this is
Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined since 2015, and today's defining sentence is their current revision.
Then
aggadah depicted in the babylonian talmud
Now
sixth-century aggadah depicted in the babylonian talmud as one of the reasons for hanukkah
Struck red text is no longer in the article; dotted amber text was rewritten. Every revision id links to Wikipedia's copy; the text shown is our own saved copy. Data: /data. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA; quoted for the record; not affiliated with Wikipedia.
