By COLlive reporter
A Menorah on a vehicle is one of the many ways Lubavitchers have been using to spread the miracle and joy of the holiday of Chanukah.
The custom dates back to 1973. After the Rebbe encouraged a Chanukah awareness campaign, a few Yeshiva students brainstormed to attract the masses.
They roped a simple wooden Menorah with a cinder block for a base to the roof of a station wagon and lit the Menorah in New York City.
“You have to remember, this was before public menorah-lightings; the concept didn’t exist. It was such a huge attraction,” Rabbi Shmuel Lipsker, one of the people involved, told Chabad.org.
Today, Menorahs of every size and shape on top of cars, mini vans and pick-up trucks are a common scene in most cities around North America and the world.
But even so, a search on Twitter shows that for many, the unconventional sight is a unique one. One common theme to those comments are that such a scenario can only be found in their particular city…
Here are a select few of those Tweets.
When you have a menorah on your car you can not speed and cut cars off!!!!!!!!!!!
A Hindu woman asked me if chanukah is over yet. She said she knew what night it was cuz she kept seeing the candles on all the cars. She asked me if we light a menorah in the house also or is it just on the cars! I laughed so hard 🙂
go yacov chai !!!!!!!!!!!
Barrack! Home to Cheder Chabad of Philadelphia!
Of course the parking lot is full of car menorahs:)
do they seriously believe what they post????
The correct term is “tweeters”, not “twitterers”.
Maybe you should be extra vigilant and not cut people off otherwise you will be going the opposite of what you intend.
when drivers of these follow all traffic rules.
But nice collection anyway.
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