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117 Articles

Laws of Chanukah by Chapter 11 Articles
- Zos Chanukah-The last day of Chanukah
The Story of Chanukah 3 Articles
- Zos Chanukah-The last day of Chanukah
Chassidus 4 Articles
- Zos Chanukah-The last day of Chanukah
The Chanukah prayers 6 Articles
- Zos Chanukah-The last day of Chanukah
Laws and Customs of Festival 12 Articles
- Zos Chanukah-The last day of Chanukah
Laws of Candle Lighting 77 Articles
- Zos Chanukah-The last day of Chanukah

Al Hanissim on Chanukah

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Appointing an emissary to light

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Are children who are below the age of Bar/Bas Mitzvah to light their own Chanukah candles?

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Aveilus on Chanukah

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Chanukah Checklist

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Chanukah Customs

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Chanukah Gelt

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Chanukah Halacha-Chapter 1: General Laws and Customs of the Festival

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Chanukah Halacha-Chapter 2: The Chanukah prayers

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Chanukah Halacha-Chapter 3: The Chanukah candles

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Chanukah Halacha-Chapter 4: Shabbos Chanukah

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Chanukah Halacha-Chapter 5: Zos Chanukah-The last day of Chanukah

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Chanukah Midrash-Chapter 1: The Story of Chanukah-Megillas Antiochus

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Chanukah Midrash-Chapter 2: Classical Q&A

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Chanukah Midrash-Chapter 3: Chassidic Insights

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Chanukah Midrash-Chapter 4: Mamar in Torah Or

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Chassidic story & lesson for Parshas Vayeishev: A dilemma in “Kiruv”; compromise on Jewish law or face limited success and influence

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Checklist and Summary of laws of Chanukah

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Does a Menorah or its glass bowls require Geniza?

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Eating and doing Melacha before

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Eating and doing Melacha before candle lighting

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875

Festive meals on Chanukah

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From the Rav’s Desk: Answering Amen with a Niggun by Chanukah candle lighting

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From the Rav’s Desk: Attending a Chanukah party by candle lighting time

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From the Rav’s Desk: Child lighting with oil versus wax candles

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467

From the Rav’s Desk: Does one fulfill his obligation if he lights the menorah on the floor?

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450

From the Rav’s Desk: Having a Gentile caretaker light the candles and retracting a mistaken Psak

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468

From the Rav’s Desk: If a guest is eating by one host and sleeping by another, where is he to light the Chanukah candles?

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687

From the Rav’s Desk: Joining neighbors Chanukah lighting and lighting later on

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From the Rav’s Desk: Lighting candles on stairs

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726

From the Rav’s Desk: Lighting using a broken seven branched menorah

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From the Rav’s Desk: May a wife light Chanukah candles in addition to her husband?

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715

From the Rav’s Desk: May an Avel/mourner light the Shul’s Menorah

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442

From the Rav’s Desk: Mourner lighting in shul on first night

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431

From the Rav’s Desk: Playing Dreidel on Shabbos, and may one use beans

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From the Rav’s Desk: Saving the leftover wicks and oil of the Menorah for the burning of Chametz on Erev Pesach

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From the Rav’s Desk: Should children light with oil versus wax candles?

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From the Rav’s Desk: Waiting for wife to come home to light candles

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535

From The Rav’s Desk: When to light if will return home late

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From the Rav’s Desk: Wind extinguished candles

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447

From the Rav’s Desk: Women cooking Sufganiyot or Latkes within the first half-hour that the candles are lit

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549

From The Rav’s Desk: Source for the story of Yehudis

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Hallel on Chanukah

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How long are the candles to remain lit

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777

How many candles to be lit

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How to set up the candles on the Menorah

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If one is traveling overnight [i.e. plane, car] what is he to do about lighting Chanukah candles

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If one’s wife or/and daughters will not be coming home until after nightfall, is one to delay the lighting until they arrive?

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510

Is a blind person obligated in lighting Chanukah candles?

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593

Leftover oil and wicks: May one benefit from the oil/wax that remains after the candles have extinguished?

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1044

Lighting a Public Menorah

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575

Lighting candles by both entrances if one who has two entrances to his home

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882

Lighting Chanukah candles on Erev Shabbos

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Lighting in area of eating versus area of sleeping

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Lighting in Shul

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Lighting Menorah on Motzei Shabbos

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Lighting the Chanukah candles in one’s store to fulfill one’s obligation

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Lighting when one is away from home

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Making a replica of the Temple Menorah

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Making use of Candles

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Materials of wicks, oil, and Menorah

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May one give presents on Chanukah or is this Minhag Hagoyim due to Kratzmacht?

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772

May one move the Menorah after it has been lit-within the half hour

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May some Chanukah candles be of wax and others of oil, and must they all be the same oil?

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778

Megilas Antiochus-Background, Authenticity, and Content

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Mitzvah of lighting Chanukah candles

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Mourner being Chazan

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Moving the Menorah

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591

Must one stand while lighting the Chanukah candles?

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577

Must the family members be present when the Chanukah candles are lit?

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610

No one fulfills obligation with shul or public or store Menorah lighting

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920

Not to place the candles in a windy area

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582

One with two entrances to his home

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Position of Menorah

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1329

Repeating blessings over the Menorah when lighting later at night after Mivtzaim

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632

Rosh Chodesh Teves Chanukah: Two versus one day, Birthdays, Meal, Davening, Kerias Hatorah order

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717

Safety precautions for Chanukah lighting:

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Segulos on Chanukah

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Shabbos Chanukah-All detailed laws

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Shalom Bayis precedes Chanukah candles-The lesson in Divine Service

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Should one use new wicks each night of Chanukah lighting?

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Sufganiyot in Halacha: Why we eat; Blessing; Washing hands; Kashrus; Heating on Shabbos

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Tachanun on Chanukah

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The Blessings

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717

The Chanukah Torah Reading

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The Date of Chanukah

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The Dreidel in Halacha and Agadah

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The intent of the Yevanim’s battle against the Jewish people

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The proper height of the Menorah from the ground

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The Seder of lighting-How to light

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The Shamash-Purpose & Halachic details-Part 1

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The Shamash-Purpose & Halachic details-Part 2

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The shape of the Temple Menorah-Circle or Diagonal branches?

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The Temple lighting versus Chanukah lights

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509

Using a Menorah for Chanukah candles-The Obligation; Material & shape

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Using real and edible olive oil versus fake or inedible olive oil for the Chanukah lighting

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Using scented candles for Chanukah lights

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Using the flame of the Chanukah candles to light another candle:

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Visiting a Cemetery

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What should one do with the leftover oil and wicks after Chanukah?

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