Timeline for 9 Days of Chanukah?
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| Jun 22, 2012 at 8:54 | comment | added | allced | Maybe you can do as follow: The first night you light one candle, the second night you light two menorah, one with two candles and an other one with only one and you make a tnay like "If today we are the second day, then the first menorah is for the mitsva and the other one just light otherwise the second menorah is for the mitsva and the first one is only light". | |
| Dec 1, 2010 at 19:18 | comment | added | Alex | Good point. But on the other hand, wouldn't we just treat it like any other ספיקא דיומא, and consider the first night to be the right one by default? Same way as we say על נטילת לולב and שהחיינו on the first day of Sukkos in chutz la'aretz, even though it's possibly really Erev Yom Tov. (Also, Mishnah Berurah is talking about a case where you've got too few candles. Could be that too many isn't a problem, though, because יש בכלל מאתים מנה. So maybe indeed we would treat it like the פרי החג during Mussaf of Sukkos.) | |
| Nov 30, 2010 at 22:51 | comment | added | WAF | @Alex, the problem is that it could practically preclude the possibility of following מהדרין מן המהדרין מחוץ לארץ. Part of lighting in this manner is to provide a recognizable account of which day it is. If we are unsure which day it is, how could we do so? After all, the משנה ברורה תרעא:ה paskens that when the number of flames lit does not accurately reflect which day it is, one MUST resort to just נר איש וביתו. hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14166&st=&pgnum=277 | |
| Nov 29, 2010 at 23:38 | vote | accept | SimchasTorah | ||
| Nov 29, 2010 at 22:12 | comment | added | Isaac Moses♦ | I get that it doesn't matter much for technical observance of the Mitzvah, but I'm curious about how many people'd light each night. Are you saying that on the ninth night, we'd light nine plus shamash? We'd need special "Rechoki" menoras with an extra branch. | |
| Nov 29, 2010 at 18:54 | comment | added | Alex | So they'd have to make somewhat bigger boxes of candles - 54 instead of 44. What's the problem? (More seriously, remember that the basic halachah is that you just need one candle each night - adding extra ones is, technically, מהדרין מן המהדרין. So if indeed in earlier times some people had a 9-day Chanukah, that would have required just one more candle.) | |
| Nov 29, 2010 at 18:24 | comment | added | Isaac Moses♦ | Whoa. How many candles do you light each night during a nine-day Chanuka? Thank God that telecommunications networks have been developed since the M"Ch's day, so we probably won't have any "faraway places" by information standards. | |
| Nov 29, 2010 at 18:13 | history | answered | Alex | CC BY-SA 2.5 |