The Hanukka lights are reminiscent of the miracle of the pure olive oil for the Menorah lit in the Beit HaMikdash.
Let’s have a look at the Menorah (candelabrum) and lights of the Mikdash, as well as miracles relating to oil and to a menorah in Tanakh.
While Bnei Yisrael set out from Egypt on their journeys through the desert, God accompanied them with a pillar of fire at night (Exodus 13,21; Nehemiah 9, 12; Psalms 109, 39).
