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Child Lighting Menorah in Shul

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May a Child light the Menorah in Shul being that it is not the real lighting?

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Per "Children In Halacha" by Rabbi Simcha Bunim Cohen the Shul's Chanukah Menorah may be kindled by a child of Chinuch age.

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