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Laws of Candle Lighting

Laws of Candle Lighting

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24. The Shul Chanukah Lighting

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25. Mivtza Chanukah and Public Lightings Halachos and History

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Accidentally recited Shehechiyanu again on second night of Chanukah – Appropriate course of Action

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171

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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Custom of lighting Chanukah Candles Inside the Home Even Today

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

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

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

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

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

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How long are the candles to remain lit

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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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671

Is a blind person obligated in lighting Chanukah candles?

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

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Lighting a Public Menorah

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

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Lighting Chanukah candles on Erev Shabbos

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Lighting in area of eating versus area of sleeping

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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 a Havdalah Candle Be Used for the Shamash?

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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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Mitzvah of lighting Chanukah candles

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Moving the Menorah

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Must one stand while lighting the Chanukah candles?

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

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Not to place the candles in a windy area

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One with two entrances to his home

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Position of Menorah

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

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Safety precautions for Chanukah lighting:

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Should one Add Water to the Oil Candles of the Chanukah Menorah?

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Should one use new wicks each night of Chanukah lighting?

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The Blessings

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

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When may one extinguish the Chanukah candles?

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When may one extinguish the Chanukah candles?

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When may or should the Menorah be lit in the Shul?

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When to light the Chanukah candles

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Where are Yeshiva and seminary students, to light the Chanukah candles-In their dorm room, or dining room?

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Where in the home is one to light the Chanukah candles-By a window or by the doorpost?

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Where is one to light the candles if he is eating by a friend or relative on one of the nights of Chanukah?

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Where is one to light the Chanukah candles on Erev and Motzei Shabbos if he will be traveling for Shabbos, or eating out for the Friday night meal

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Where is one to light the Chanukah candles-Inside the house or outside the house

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Where should a guest light on Motzei Shabbos?

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Where should the Menorah be lit

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Where to light when eating out on night of Chanukah

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Who is obligated to light

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Women lighting Chanukah candles

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Working while candles are lit

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Zos Chanukah-The last day of Chanukah

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