Chabad Menorah Lighting At Town Square Part 1

for each one of us to add an after a show of unity to our households our community and the whole Jewish world I would like to call upon at this time Rabbi kba a good friend and respected Rabbi of central South Jersey to say a few words yeah just unplug the tree and pluging the Min I don't see a problem guys just heard the words of the G the words of our rabbis at Miles the opinion of hillo that you just heard of which is taken from the gor tells us that each night tonight we like three but tomorrow we have to add a candle and the day after another one because for every day that God gives us there's an additional return that we have to that we owe to God it is not enough just to say in essence thanks but we have to show an additional form of life every single day of Our Lives those of you that are standing here in the rain and you know what it means to come out and slep over here I want to tell you a story my first manura lighting was 31 years ago in downtown New Brunswick and tonight reminds me of that the only difference was that time it wasn't only raining it was icy and around 40° less than it is now there was only one person that showed up to the manur lighting that night in downtown new Bron a fireman who had to put me into the cherry picker to go up to the top and light the T it was me and a fireman but I couldn't care I was so happy that we're finally putting up a manur in downtown no brunic to me there were 10,000 people over there and so I stood up 30 ft in the air in a cherry picker and I was yelling like the like there was a crowd there wasn't a person on the street not one but I didn't know I gave the and I lit the candles and I'm singing the Kana songs and as I'm coming down the cherry picker I'm singing I see a homeless man in a T-shirt and jeans freezing jumping up and down so what I keep singing and the homeless man is just standing there looking at me when I finally reached the bottom the homeless man who's freezing says the following words to me he said to me it feels good to be a Jew and it taught me a lesson I never saw this man again but for that one individual ual the lighting of the manora was perfect and tonight we have many individuals here let us hope that through the power of every manur and every candle and every addition we will very very soon see the lighting of the by the kohen god in the third B mikd to all thank you very much they are true and from the heart that is precisely what we are doing here tonight small candles let's go let's go can light up the world like we're taught it just takes one little candle just one small little candle to dispel a world of darkness and without further Ado we will proceed to the lighting of the of the manur we'd like to call upon councilman Ray Co to light the shamish and Deputy Mayor Steve langert to light the manura thank you hold on tight nothing EAS this year okay by your please may noide they go girlfriend he tting he til nobody wants to get out of their cars tiled mayor watch out May May right we are going to sing the Sal with an extra amount of energy and an extra amount of strength and all you who know the song please sing along still Hal haling oh no FL sh by by man kid