Competition music lifts spirits, shines gentle on Ukraine

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – Omaha’s Chabad of Nebraska turned up the sunshine and the music for Hanukkah Monday evening.

“One of the best ways to do it’s with slightly little bit of honey… plenty of pleasure, happiness and pleasure,” Chabad of Nebraska govt director Rabbi Mendel Katzman stated. “Pleasure actually does break up and penetrate all boundaries.”

With that, embracing Ukraine is an ideal gesture for Omaha’s celebration of the Jewish Competition of Lights.

“We’re in a darkish tunnel, particularly for our brothers and sisters in Ukraine, lots of whom I do know personally, however we’re the identical race, whether or not we all know them personally or not, they nonetheless are one in every of us,” Rabbi Katzman stated.

The eight day celebration is the truth is additionally about music, what the rabbi calls the pen of the center.

“In Judaism, music has at all times been entrance and middle,” he stated. “Its what we pray with, its what we rejoice with, what we cry and snicker with, principally a complete cycle is admittedly linked via music.”

And for this celebration at Chabad in Omaha, the music was offered by a touring Ukrainian group primarily based out of Chicago and Miami, The Tumbalalaika Band.

These 4 males could reside in America, however their hearts beat for his or her homeland in Ukraine. And so they say that throughout the competition of lights, music can ease a heavy coronary heart.

“It’s not simply (being) linked to god, any good voice and inclination lifts individuals up, their spirits up,” Tumbalalaika’s Peter Sadkhin stated. “Hanukkah of lights is definitely about lifting individuals up for higher.”

Cash raised at Monday evening’s musical celebration will generate a few of what’s wanted for households in Ukraine via Chabad’s outreach programs, together with, fairly actually, turbines within the winter months forward.

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