World’s Largest Chanukah Menorah Lighting on Fifth Avenue Features Menorah Designed by World Renowned Artist, Yaacov Agam

Event to Take Place Sunday, December 25 at 5:30 PM

The World’s Largest Chanukah Menorah will be lighted on Fifth Avenue and 59th Street, near Central Park, between the Plaza and the Pierre Hotels.

The first candle will be lighted on Sunday, December 25, at 5:30 PM. Menorah lighting will follow on all evenings of Chanukah at 5:30 PM (Friday at about 3:45 PM; Saturday night at 8:30 PM).

The World’s Largest Chanukah Menorah, sponsored by the Lubavitch Youth Organization, was specially designed by world-renowned artist Yaacov Agam. Mr. Agam’s design was inspired by a hand drawing by the Rambam (Maimonides) of the original Menorah in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.

The Menorah stands as a symbol of freedom and democracy for all of mankind, said Rabbi Shmuel M. Butman, Director, Lubavitch Youth Organization. It celebrates good over evil, democracy over terrorism, light over darkness, freedom over oppression.

The 32-foot high, gold colored, 4,800-pound steel structure will be lighted nightly with genuine oil lamps. Specially designed glass chimneys will protect the Chanukah lights from the Central Park winds.

Due to the height of the Menorah, it will be lighted nightly with the help of a Con Edison “cherry-picker” crane that will lift the lighters to the Menorah Heights.

“May the Chanukah lights usher in the eternal lights of the great redemption and a new world of peace and tranquility, happiness and harmony between man and man and between nation and nation,” said Rabbi Butman.