At site of Nazi power, a Chanukah menorah at Brandenburg Gate
By Toby Axelrod • December 2, 2010
Kostimirani Makabejac na ceremoniji paljenja svijeća na Hanukiji postavljenoj na Brandenburškim vratima u Berlinu, 1 prosinca 2010
BERLIN (JTA) -- Icicles formed on Rabbi Yehudah Teichtal’s beard as he helped set up the towering menorah in the center of Berlin.
It wasn’t just any menorah among the thousands that the Chabad-Lubavitch movement erects every Chanukah in public locations around the world. Teichtal, the Chabad rabbi in the German capital, was erecting this one at the Brandenburg Gate, once a symbol of Nazi power.
By nightfall on the first night of Chanukah, the gate through which the Nazis marched and which for 28 years marked the dividing line between East and West Berlin had been transformed into a Jewish symbol.
Slobodni prijevod
Na bradi rabina Yehudaha Teichtala nahvatalo se inje dok je pomagao postaviti menoru u centru Berlina.
To nije samo jedna od tisuća menora, koje je pokret Chabad -Lubaviča podigao svakog praznika Hanuke na javnim mjestima širom svijeta.
Teichtal, Chabadni rabin u njemačkom glavnom gradu, podignuo je ovu menoru kod Brandenburških vrata, koje su nekada bile nacistički simbol.
Sa početkom noći, na prvi dan Hanuke, vrata kroz koje su marširali nacisti i koje su 28 godina označavale liniju
diobe između Istočnog i Zapadnog Berlina, sada su pretvorene u židovski simbol...