According to Wikipedia: “According to the Talmud, olive oil was needed for the menorah in the Temple, which was required to burn throughout the night every night. The story goes that there was only enough oil to burn for one day, yet it burned for eight days, the time needed to prepare a fresh supply of oil for the menorah. An eight day festival was declared by the Jewish sages to commemorate this miracle.”
On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said he believed that that miracle historically happened. No scholar outside of traditional Orthodox Judaism would agree with Dennis here.
