TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) – The eight-day festival of lights continues as Toledo is marking 50 years of Chanukah in the public sphere.
Friday outside One Government Center in downtown, Chabad of Toledo held a menorah lighting.
The holiday recalls the victory of the militarily weak but spiritually strong Jewish people who defeated the Syrian Greeks. When they recaptured the temple, there was only one jar of oil. Enough to burn for one day but, it lasted for eight days.
“Each one of us in our hearts, we have a flame and our job is just like the holiday of Chanukah, is to use our little candle inside of us and illuminate the life of the people around us,” Rabbi Yossi Shemtove of the Chabad House said.
Chabad House has other activities planned as well. Chanukah on Ice is happening Sunday at the Ice Ribbon and Chanukh at the Mall will be held Monday at the Franklin Park Mall.
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