The "Israel Today" team joins the lighting of Chanukah candles with a menorah that becomes a hit on social networks every year • This is the story behind the famous picture • View

• Photo: Oren Ben Hakon

Every year, the famous picture of the menorah in front of the Nazi flag excites thousands on social networks. The photograph of a menorah in front of the symbol of evil. The candles are burning in a black and white image that warms the heart and proves that the hater can be beat and that there is hope.

Watch:

Photo: June Rickner

For decades the famous Menorah has been lighting the Beit Shemesh family home. Every year the Chanukah leaves its permanent residence in the Yad Vashem Museum and travels to the family home for the lighting of the Chanukah candles. The meaning is clear - this is not a display, but a living and existing item that symbolizes the continuation of the Jewish people after the Holocaust.

The story of the famous picture lies in the family history of Yehuda Mansbach, in December 1931, less than two years before the Nazis came to power. "My grandmother, Rachel, the wife of Rabbi Akiva Baruch Posner, Rabbi of Kiel in Germany, drew the curtain and set the menorah. She recognized the Nazi party house with the flag and took the picture."

"And Judah will never sit down." Yehuda Mansbach // Photo: Oren Ben Hakon

The Nazi, Chanukah and Israel flag // Photo: Oren Ben Hakun

Shortly thereafter, the picture returned from development, and Rachel, then still only a German speaker, writes behind her "Hanukkah 5692", the Hebrew year "1926" in numbers. "She heard Hitlerian youth singing in the plots" Yehuda will break up, Yehuda for doom ", and she decided Write this in a quote behind the picture with an answer in rhyme: "And Judah will never sit down, so the candle answers."

Two years after the photo in question, the Nazis were in power and the feelings among the family were difficult. They decide in June 1933 to leave Germany on their way to Israel. A year later they are already in the country. "Until 1960 this menorah was used by my grandfather, with candles. Not with oil. At 70, we bought him a more beautiful menorah, but unfortunately two years later he passed away."

After grandmother Rachel passed away, the menorah was passed on to Judah's mother and from there to his son, Akiva Baruch, after the grandfather. Yesterday evening (Tuesday), the grandson lit the menorah in front of the window and the historic photo. Judas, they prove, you'll never sit down.