The Famous Menorah - Rabbi Shlomo Landau

[Music] this manura is perhaps one of the most famous in the Jewish world for it reflects the journey The Odyssey of the Jewish people in its humble beginnings in 1932 in Kel Germany the rabbi and his wife Rabbi Akiva and Rael pner lit this Mana in their front window in defiance of the Nazi swastika Banner that hung across the street from their home the Nazis had been rearing their ugly head the final solution was inform formation and in an act of defiance Rael and AKA lit their manira across from that Banner Rael took a picture of it and she inscribed on the back of the picture the following poem in German death to the Jews the flag says the Jew will live forever the light response her and her husband saw the handwriting on the wall immigrated to Israel and lived in kifa where they continued to light that manira each and every year eventually their descendants got the man and continued to light it decades later in 2009 one of their descendants AKA manak took the manira with the permission of his parents and lit it in an army base together with his fellow soldiers when the story of this manur was heard and became more public yhem the Holocaust Museum in Israel asked permission from the family if they could take it and display it the family only conceded on the condition that each Kaneka it would come back to their home and they could continue to light that manira in 2022 just last year the German government heard about this mana and they invited the mpak family The Descendants of AKA and Rael pner back to Germany were in full view they lit this manira on the second night of haneka in the palace in bellw Palace the Palace of the German president it was as if the Jewish light continued to burn this story made it into world headlines but no one dreamed no one imagined where the next step in the Journey of this Mona would find itself because you see this very Kaneka the descendants of Akiva and Rael pasner lit this very manura in Gaza on a [Music] tank yet another step in the journey and the Odyssey of the Jewish people this Kan we DAV and we pray that the next step of this beautiful Mana will be with the coming of mesiah as the pner mbak family gathered together to light this manira with the Gula Shala the ultimate Redemption and that this man will finally come to its final resting place