His voice echoed throughout the Red Square as Rabbi Berel Lazar, Chief Rabbi of Russia recited the three brachos while standing in a forklift over the statue of Karl Marx at the Kremlin gates. The large crowd emotionally answered a resounding “Amen!”
This is the thirtieth year that the Chanuka candles are proudly lit in the public square. It began in 5750, when the Lubavitcher Rebbe zi”a, promised that it will be a “Year of Miracles”. That was when the Jews of Russia began seeing open miracles in all matters of Torah observance, as Yiddishkeit began to return to its former glory in Russia.
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