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You are to light your own candles, or be Yotzei with the general candle lighting taking place in the hospital, if such a lighting is taking place [i.e. dining room].

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Chanukah in the hospital for a Yoledes – Shulchanaruchharav.com

Generally not.

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Increasing in blessings for many individuals – May a person doing a Mitzvah multiple times in one session honor several individuals to do so with a blessing each time – Shulchanaruchharav.com

All scriptural villains have a counterpart in Kedusha:

There exists a Pharaoh and Sar Hamashkim in Kedusha: Just like Pharoah and the Sar Haofim exist in the world below, which is Kelipa, so too they also exist within the realm of Kedusha. Both exist within the realms of Kelipa and Kedusha, as Hashem made a counterpart of Kedusha for every level of Kelipa.

The level of Pharaoh in Holiness: The level of Pharaoh in the side of evil is a very tough and intense form of evil. Its correspondence in the side of holiness is a very intense and strong revelation of G-dliness and is the revelation of the word of G-d. With that said, having the Sar Hamashkim bring Pharaoh the cup of wine represents revealing a great love for G-d within one’s soul and accessing a great revelation of G-dliness.

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Rabbi Yaakov Goldstein is a 6th generation descendent of the famous Chief Rabbi of Izhmir, Rav Yehoshua Avraham Krispin, who authored a number of Sefarim, and was a colleague of Rav Chaim Falagi, and father in-law of the Pesach Hadvir. He currently lives with his wife Shayna, and twelve children K”H, in Tzfas, Israel. Rabbi Goldstein received Semicha from Rabbi Schneur Zalman Labkowski of the Tomchei Temimim headquarters in 2005 and served as a chaplain in the Lotar/Kalatz and K9 unit of the IDF from years 2005-2008. He is also a certified Shochet, and has performed Hashgacha work in slaughterhouses. Rabbi Goldstein is the director of Shulchanaruchharav.com, the world’s leading web-based Halacha database, and is the director of the Home Study Semicha Program, a self-study web-based Semicha program. He is a prolific author of over 50 Sefarim studied by a wide range of readers throughout the world, which is used regularly in Semicha programs around the globe. He is a world renowned Posek, answering questions to a web-based market, and serves as a local Posek, Rav, and Lecturer, in the Tzemach Tzedek community Shul in Tzefas, Israel. His many classes can be heard both from his website, Vimeo and YouTube channel. Students can join live to classes given in the Tzemach Tzedek Shul, through the “בית חבד צפת Chabad Tsfat” YouTube channel.

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