The Birth of Jesus Christ and the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, which coincide in time with the end of the calendar year and the beginning of the new year, are very different in meaning: the first celebrates the beginning of the Christian era; the second celebrates the restoration of the traditional service in the Temple in Jerusalem, which was interrupted by the civil war in 170 BC. As it is not difficult to understand, the feast of Hanukkah is a feast of restoration, which is explained by the continuation of the interrupted actions, and in this sense it is the opposite of the feast of Christmas, whose meaning is not only and not so much about a new chronology, but about the renewal of man, which begins with the coming of the new Adam. Renewal begins with the act of birth, continues with the unconventional behavior and teaching of the new Messiah, and ends with his execution, resurrection from the dead, and ascension to heaven, interpreted in Christianity as presaging the future renewal of all people.