Rabbi Mendy Wilschanski Chabad of Raleigh
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- For the first time in nearly 20 years, Christmas and the first night of Hanukkah fell on the same day on Wednesday. It's a rare curtain set, sparked celebrations across the triangle, across the country and in India, across the world. And joining us now from Raleigh is Rabbi Mindy Wachinsky, who wound up standing over and presided over one of those services here locally. Rabbi, how are you? - Thank God, how are you? - I'm fine. - So how did this go and how the festival of lights, of course, started last night? Was there anything different that it fell on the first day of Christmas? - Well, Hanukkah is Hanukkah by the Hebrew calendar. So it could fall out on many different dates on the English calendar or the regular Gregorian calendar. We had recently, a couple of years ago on Thanksgiving. And this I think is one of the later years that we get where it falls out on the day. - Yeah, was there more excitement? You have a lot going on at the Jewish Life Center in Raleigh. So what did you do exactly for the first night? - So for the first night, we welcomed it in. I mean, a lot of our Jewish community is, you know, usually when it comes to the holiday on the 25th, they have nothing to do. Now they had a home to come and celebrate together. And we lit up the menorah. We had our family festival. It was beautiful. We're all the kids who got to come together in a crazy community. So it was a beautiful night. - And what is slated for this Sunday? - We have a car parade with menorah top vehicles going all around Raleigh to visit some of the senior homes in the area. And we're bringing it back to Lafayette Village, where we will have a grand menorah lighting starting at 315 at Lafayette Village this Sunday. - And you're going to indeed, to the truest sense of the term, spread light, is that correct? - Yeah. - Absolutely. What is the meaning of Hanukkah? - So Hanukkah actually comes from the Hebrew word khanu kafe
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