{"id":6725,"date":"2018-11-15T09:51:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T07:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2018\/11\/15\/the-lubavitcher-rebbes-letter-initiating-public-hannukah-candle-lightings"},"modified":"2018-11-15T09:51:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T07:51:57","slug":"the-lubavitcher-rebbes-letter-initiating-public-hannukah-candle-lightings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2018\/11\/15\/the-lubavitcher-rebbes-letter-initiating-public-hannukah-candle-lightings\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lubavitcher Rebbe&#8217;s Letter Initiating Public Hannukah Candle Lightings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NBptBbRyiqM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>In this <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NBptBbRyiqM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">moving video (04:09)<\/a>, people take turns reading a letter from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chabad.org\/therebbe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson <\/a>in which\u00a0he explains the importance of lighting Hannukah candles in public spaces as a symbol of the triumph of light over darkness, a message that is relevant in every generation. Referring to the lighting of giant menorahs in city squares, parks and malls, the letter, written in 1980, explains how the mitzvah begins in the home, but must illuminate the entire world.\u00a0<\/em><em>With a focus on outreach, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chabad.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chabad<\/a>\u00a0movement today is committed to continuing the Rebbe\u2019s legacy to love all Jews and believe in the power of the individual to bring humanity closer to the Messianic era.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this moving video (04:09), people take turns reading a letter from\u00a0Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson in which\u00a0he explains the importance of lighting Hannukah candles in public spaces as a symbol of the triumph of light over darkness, a message that is relevant in every generation. Referring to the lighting of giant menorahs in city squares, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":6726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[3769],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=6725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13727,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725\/revisions\/13727\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6726\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=6725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=6725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=6725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}