As every year, the last candle lighting event of Hanukkah by Rebbe Rabbi Josiah Pinto took place in the Borough Park neighborhood, Brooklyn, New York, with the participation of rabbis and Rebbeim, guests and a large audience. Watch
The event took place every year, in the Borough Park neighborhood, Brooklyn, New York, with the participation of rabbis and Rebbeim, guests and a large audience.At the center of the
event, which took place in the huge Beit Esther hall, Rabbi Pinto lit the last candle of Hanukkah, gave words of encouragement and awakening, and distributed a coin to thousands for safekeeping and blessing.Rabbi
Pinto was greeted by the Rabbi of the Berkat Menachem congregation, Rabbi Yehoshua Nathan Feifer, and a special Hasidic choir played Hanukkah songs along with singers and a child prodigy.
Sitting next to him at the lighting ceremony were his sons, Rabbi Yoel Pinto, his eldest son and successor to his father, and Rabbi Meir Eliyahu Pinto, Rabbi Pinto’s youngest son.
“We are in a period of material and spiritual war,” said Rabbi Pinto, “and just as then in the time of the Greeks there was a war for the spirit, today too there is a war for the spirit. Foreign forces want to bring Greek culture into our home today, and the more we stop those forces, the more we will see miracles and salvation,” Rabbi Pinto added.
The event was secured by security guards from Borough Park, managed by Rabbi Levi Leifer, and was produced and managed by Hasidic activist Yaakov Plitschkin.Previously, during Hanukkah,
Rabbi Pinto stayed at his residence in Morocco, where the Hanukkah candle lighting stands were also held, with the participation of many of his students.
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