New York, NY – New York City is celebrating the start of Hanukkah with the ceremonial lighting of a 32-foot-tall menorah at the edge of Central Park.
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Dignitaries, rabbis and a big crowd are expected Saturday for the 8:30 p.m. ceremony, held on a plaza on 5th Avenue near the park’s southeast corner.
The steel menorah weighs 4,000 pounds and stands tall enough that organizers will need an electric utility crane and to reach the top. It has real oil lamps, protected from the wind by glass chimneys.
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer and Rabbi Schmuel Butman of the Lubavitch Youth Organization will be on hand to light the first lamp.
The eight-day Jewish holiday celebrates the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.
Last time I checked, the mitzva of lighting the menorah is to be performed at ones house. There’s an additional requirement that it should be placed in such a way that passer by’s should be able to see it.
What chabad is doing is not part of the mitzva.
Same is true for the menoras placed on car rooftops.
I think you forgot the concept of Pirsumei Neessa.
#1 , What about the multitudes of Yidden that would otherwise not have any inkling that it is Chanuka that get inspired by this?
Does your shulchan aruch talk about pirsumei nisa?