The Biggest Menorah in the World

We become a “light to the nations” precisely when we are living together in Eretz Yisrael.

Tzvi Fishman

27 Kislev 5773 – December 10, 2012

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That’s why the light of even one small menorah on a hilltop in Judea and Samaria, in Beit Horon or Michmash, where the Chanukah battles were waged, shines more brightly than all of the gigantic menorahs in the foreign gentile lands, “For from Zion shall go forth the Torah, and the word of the Lord from Yerushalayim.”

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Tzvi Fishman

Tzvi Fishman was awarded the Israel Ministry of Education Prize for Creativity and Jewish Culture for his novel "Tevye in the Promised Land." A wide selection of his books are available at Amazon. His recent movie "Stories of Rebbe Nachman" The DVD of the movie is available online.