Dudi Kaplan, a rabbinical student working with the Chabad-Lubavitch representatives in Golden Beach, Florida, had a brainstorm that would not only keep the streets clean of trashed Coca Cola tins, but would actually turn them to laudable usefulness.
Imagine a thousand cans illuminating mother earth with light and warmth instead of adding to the litter and pollutants of its environs. Kaplan, with Chabad of Golden Beach, launched a creative Chanukah competition that allows only glue and metal wire to be used in crafting Menorahs exclusively out of used Cola cans.
Among the 100-plus Chabad-House communities Florida-wide, and now quickly taking off in Jewish communities everywhere, adults and children are busily designing, stringing, gluing and hammering those red and white tins into menorahs worthy of public display.
The contest will run until December 19 when the winning Menorahs will be awarded prizes by Elini, the Swiss watch company that is sponsoring the competition. To learn how you can participate in the contest, contact Dudi Kaplan at: 1-646-591-850.
(Source: Lubavitch)
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Yeh, go Chabad!
Coca Cola and Lubavitch have a long-standing association. It was the Ponevezher Rav Zatsal who is quoted as saying: “there are two things one can find all over the world: Coca cola and Lubavitch”.
A very apt comparison. Both a lot of gas and air!
Mother earth?!
#2im an onov
something like you onov= afur v’aifer
Baki: Vayitzer H-shem El-kim afar min ah’adama.:-)
Yes, I know that mother earth is an atheistic expression, to refer to earth as our mother, it avoids all the complications of a Deity. And their kavana is not the posuk.
But we’re dealing with an organization that will sacrifice the language to get to their political objective. “A Menora is not a religious artifact. It is a universal symbol connoting freedom.”
i smell a lawsuit coming from down yonder in Atlanta!
Lawsuit? If they were smart, they’d get Coke to sponsor the competition. It is good advertisement for them.