The skies over Jerusalem will be brighter Sunday night as 12-graders from a religious high school will light a 6-foot high menorah made out of materials from the past and present. The menorah will be displayed and lit at Mamila, across from the Old City.
The girls, art students at one of the high schools in the Tzvia school network, built the menorah from iron, symbolizing ancient times, and modern silk paper.
“Ever since the Almighty first said, 'Let there be light,’ there has been a Jewish chain of creating light and happiness amid dark and difficult periods,” explained Hedva Georno, who supervises the students. “We chose this kind of menorah to represent the subject of light.
She told Arutz 7 that the use of material from conflicting periods of history, representing darkness and light, emphasized the idea of the light chasing away the darkness, one of the messages of the eight-day Chanukah holiday.
Electric lights inside the menorah will provide light during the entire night for residents and visitors in Jerusalem.
Tzvia students also are displaying nine “dreidels,” the spinning top that is one of the most popular customs during Chanukah. The students made them out of glass, and they are a part of a larger project for interior designs on a synagogue and home.
Tzvia ninth-graders designed a mosaic wall, made from paper, glass and mirrors and based on the Chanukah song “We Have Come to Chase Away the Darkness,” a theme that emphasizes the Jewish people’s self-examination to help it stand against enemies.