Chanukah הלכות חנוכה
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670What Is Forbidden and Permitted on ChanukahSiman 670 · 16 seifim
- 1.During the Second Temple era, the Greek kings decreed…
- 2.Women customarily refrain from work such as sewing and…
- 3.Some women are accustomed not to do any work…
- 4.It is proper to study Chanukah laws during Chanukah…
- 5.Because the Sages established the eight days for joy…
- 6.A teacher of young Torah students who also maintains…
- 7.Fasting is forbidden on Chanukah. If a parent’s yahrzeit…
- 8.One who fasts because of a troubling dream on…
- 9.The custom of going up to the cemetery at…
- 10.Some permit visiting graves of righteous Tannaim and Amoraim…
- 11.Some mourners for parents customarily omit Kaddish on Chanukah.…
- 12.One bereaved during Chanukah observes every mourning law, tears…
- 13.If the thirtieth day falls on Chanukah, a meal…
- 14.Some eat extra dairy foods on Chanukah to recall…
- 15.The custom is to eat oil-fried sufganiyot in remembrance…
- 16.Some say that the many meals people hold during…
671Lighting Chanukah Candles and Where to Place ThemSiman 671 · 26 seifim
- 1.One must be exceptionally careful with the beloved Chanukah-lighting…
- 2.An estate supporting a widow must provide oil so…
- 3.Although Chanukah lights take priority over ordinary charity, they…
- 4.The Sages taught: the basic mitzvah is one light…
- 5.One with only enough oil for one night’s required…
- 6.One possessing exactly enough for the enhanced pattern all…
- 7.On the second or third night, one with only…
- 8.On the third night, if one has oil for…
- 9.On the eighth night without enough oil for eight…
- 10.One who mistakenly lights two on the first night…
- 11.If on the second or later night one lights…
- 12.If a bowl of oil is surrounded by wicks…
- 13.Round silver or copper menorahs with branches arranged in…
- 14.Initially Chanukah lights should sit in a vessel. Wax…
- 15.A traveler camping at night without house or tent…
- 16.A vessel bought from a non-Jew for Chanukah lighting…
- 17.One authority says a glass used even once to…
- 18.Ideally place the flames within ten tefachim of the…
- 19.A flame over twenty amot above the dwelling floor…
- 20.An upper-floor resident should place lights in a window,…
- 21.Place the lights within a tefach of the entrance…
- 22.Some require outdoor lighting today when safe; others say…
- 23.There is one who wrote that nowadays the mitzvah…
- 24.In Talmudic times, a courtyard with entrances on two…
- 25.A guest assigned a separate bedroom with its own…
- 26.A person traveling by ship or train who can…
+Lighting Chanukah Candles in the SynagogueSiman 671 (continued) · 18 seifim
- 1.Established ancient custom lights Chanukah candles in synagogues with…
- 2.Synagogue candles are lit at sunset between Minchah and…
- 3.At the Western Wall, established custom blesses and lights…
- 4.Synagogue lighting does not fulfill the household obligation. Even…
- 5.If 25 Kislev falls Friday night, after everyone already…
- 6.Each person should make himself available to light and…
- 7.One who lit at home on the first night…
- 8.One view requires synagogue oil only for the duration…
- 9.At Chanukah hall gatherings where Torah teaching draws Jews…
- 10.The menorah for the Chanukah lights in the synagogue…
- 11.Some communities have the prayer leader or rabbi light;…
- 12.A mourner within shivah should not light in synagogue…
- 13.Synagogue lighting blessings require ten people because publicity of…
- 14.On a time-pressed Friday afternoon, some permit blessing and…
- 15.If Friday Minchah worshippers have not yet arrived but…
- 16.Some allow a minor to light and discharge adults;…
- 17.The custom is to light Chanukah candles in the…
- 18.A synagogue’s electric menorah displayed on its roof for…
672The Time for Lighting Chanukah CandlesSiman 672 · 12 seifim
- 1.Chanukah lights are lit at nightfall, about fifteen minutes…
- 2.One arriving home twenty minutes before dawn lights with…
- 3.A fixed meal may not begin before lighting, even…
- 4.The pre-lighting eating restriction applies to a widow or…
- 5.Do not begin work before lighting. Even Torah study…
- 6.Soldiers unable for security reasons to light at nightfall…
- 7.Synagogues in which Torah classes are held every day…
- 8.Kollel scholars may continue their regular Chanukah study and…
- 9.A shopkeeper closing late should ask his wife to…
- 10.One arriving home late who still needs Ma’ariv and…
- 11.If a son visits his father for Shabbat Chanukah,…
- 12.One unavoidably missing a night has no makeup next…
673Oils and Wicks Valid for ChanukahSiman 673 · 15 seifim
- 1.All oils and wicks are valid even when oil…
- 2.If wax candles were prepared and attached to the…
- 3.A floating wick coated in wax is initially valid…
- 4.Initially do not mix oil lights and wax lights…
- 5.Many contemporary authorities hold electric lamps do not fulfill.…
- 6.Gas lamps, lacking wicks, do not fulfill and follow…
- 7.Oil mixed with rendered fat from a non-kosher animal…
- 8.Oil in which a mouse was found, though technically…
- 9.Initially do not use oil from orlah olives, forbidden…
- 10.Oil left beneath a bed while someone slept remains…
- 11.One who lights with stolen oil fulfills after the…
- 12.IDF soldiers wishing to use gun oil should properly…
- 13.Do not light in a broken earthen vessel, lemon…
- 14.Wicks need not be replaced nightly; use them until…
- 15.There is one who wrote that one should be…
+The Prohibition Against Using Their LightThe Prohibition Against Using Their Light · 6 seifim
- 1.One may not use Chanukah light even casually, such…
- 2.After the mitzvah period of half an hour from…
- 3.After the mitzvah period, the menorah may illuminate a…
- 4.The added enhancement lights are as forbidden for use…
- 5.Only beneficial use of Chanukah light is prohibited. If…
- 6.One authority forbids conversing with a friend in the…
674Lighting One Chanukah Candle from AnotherSiman 674 · 4 seifim
- 1.One Chanukah light may directly ignite an adjacent one…
- 2.If a Chanukah light later goes out and one…
- 3.Do not light an ordinary candle or cigarette from…
- 4.Synagogue, Shabbat, Chanukah, and Torah-study lights are all mitzvah…
675Lighting Constitutes the MitzvahSiman 675 · 13 seifim
- 1.Lighting constitutes the mitzvah, and therefore at the time…
- 2.Regarding those meticulous in mitzvot who are accustomed to…
- 3.There is one who wrote that if one lit…
- 4.If Friday Chanukah lights properly lit before Shabbat go…
- 5.If at the time of lighting there was not…
- 6.Lights must be ignited where they will remain. Although…
- 7.An ill householder unable to leave bed should not…
- 8.Ignite most of the exposed wick until the flame…
- 9.It is good to educate children of appropriate age…
- 10.Women are obligated because they too participated in the…
- 11.A business traveler in a hotel whose wife lights…
- 12.For a blind man with a wife, she lights…
- 13.A blind man’s lighting discharges his entire household.
676The Order of Blessings and LightingSiman 676 · 21 seifim
- 1.On the first night recite three blessings: Lehadlik Ner…
- 2.The first blessing says Lehadlik Ner Chanukah, without ‘shel.’…
- 3.She’asah Nissim says Bazman Hazeh, not Uvazman Hazeh with…
- 4.In Shehecheyanu pronounce lazman hazeh with the definite vowel,…
- 5.All three blessings precede lighting, under the rule that…
- 6.A righteous convert may say ‘Who performed miracles for…
- 7.After blessing, make no interruption even by gesture before…
- 8.After lighting the first required candle but before enhancement…
- 9.After lighting the first required light and withdrawing one’s…
- 10.After the required light, one may answer Kaddish, Kedushah,…
- 11.It is a good custom after lighting to recite…
- 12.If all blessings were forgotten before lighting, on the…
- 13.One who had oil for one light, blessed and…
- 14.If Shehecheyanu was omitted on the first night and…
- 15.If one was absent the first night and his…
- 16.One buying a new silver menorah on the second…
- 17.Blessings never prevent mitzvah fulfillment. One who lights without…
- 18.A view says HaNerot Hallalu should precede She’asah Nissim.…
- 19.On the first night light the far-right candle, farthest…
- 20.If no mezuzah is on the doorway’s right and…
- 21.When a householder is compelled to be away from…
677Guests and Yeshivah StudentsSiman 677 · 17 seifim
- 1.Initially gather all dependent household members for the blessings…
- 2.Anyone for whom lights were kindled at home fulfills…
- 3.A guest for whom no one lights at home…
- 4.Yeshivah students sleeping in dormitory rooms need neither contribute…
- 5.An Israeli yeshivah student whose parents are in America,…
- 6.As for the practice in the holy yeshivot of…
- 7.Ashkenazic yeshivah students follow their custom that each household…
- 8.Married soldiers at the front fulfill through wives lighting…
- 9.A married son who is supported at his father's…
- 10.One staying in an entirely non-Jewish village lights with…
- 11.Required-duration oil remaining after the eighth night may not…
- 12.An explicit stipulation when placing oil and wicks that…
- 13.For a vessel catching oil dripping from burning Chanukah…
- 14.Oil left in a bottle designated for Chanukah after…
- 15.Some say a forbidden Chanukah candle mixed with ordinary…
- 16.An onen before burial is exempt from all mitzvot…
- 17.A mourner, even during shivah, is obligated in every…
679Chanukah Lights on Friday and Saturday NightSiman 679 · 8 seifim
- 1.On Friday it is proper to light the Chanukah…
- 2.After the fact, if a woman lit the Shabbat…
- 3.An Ashkenazic woman who customarily accepts Shabbat through candle…
- 4.On the eve of Shabbat one must put oil…
- 5.It is proper to pray Minchah on the eve…
- 6.One with only one candle on Friday Chanukah, such…
- 7.A gabbai of a synagogue who has the means…
- 8.One who on Friday has oil for the Chanukah…
681Havdalah and the Chanukah LightsSiman 681 · 4 seifim
- 1.Do not use a Chanukah flame for Havdalah, because…
- 2.Established custom lights Chanukah in synagogue before the leader…
- 3.Those who are accustomed every Motzaei Shabbat not to…
- 4.Today, when lighting indoors, if no other flame exists,…
682Al HaNissim on ChanukahSiman 682 · 21 seifim
- 1.At Ma’ariv on Chanukah night say Al HaNissim even…
- 2.If the first night is Friday, after everyone lit…
- 3.If one says only ‘Al HaNissim’ and jumps directly…
- 4.Say Ve’al HaNissim with a vav, continuing ‘we thank…
- 5.If Al HaNissim was omitted and remembered within Modim…
- 6.If one mistakenly restarts the Amidah after omitting Al…
- 7.One who remembers after concluding Modim should appropriately insert…
- 8.If Al HaNissim was mistakenly inserted in Retzeh where…
- 9.One who mistakenly recites the Purim text ‘in the…
- 10.Do not omit or shorten Al HaNissim on Chanukah…
- 11.Birkat HaMazon on Chanukah includes Al HaNissim in Nodeh…
- 12.One beginning a meal on Chanukah’s eighth day and…
- 13.The occasion is not mentioned on Chanukah (and likewise…
- 14.In ‘Mattityahu son of Yochanan the Chashmonai,’ it is…
- 15.The correct text is ‘when the wicked Greek kingdom…
- 16.In ‘the wicked Greek kingdom,’ established pronunciation says harish’ah…
- 17.Say ‘to make them forget Your Torah and transgress…
- 18.Say ‘they established these eight days of Chanukah for…
- 19.Say ‘for You, You made a great and holy…
- 20.Say ‘and for Your people Israel You made a…
- 21.Say ‘You performed miracles and wonders for them’ in…
683Saying Hallel on ChanukahSiman 683 · 11 seifim
- 1.On each of the eight days of Chanukah, the…
- 2.An individual who began reciting the complete Hallel on…
- 3.Every individual member of the congregation is permitted to…
- 4.One who recites Hallel on a day when the…
- 5.It is forbidden to interrupt with speech in the…
- 6.If one has finished reciting all of Hallel through…
- 7.The entire day, from sunrise until sunset, is valid…
- 8.An avel (mourner) is also obligated to recite the…
- 9.Women are exempt from reciting Hallel on Chanukah. Even…
- 10.On all eight days of Chanukah, one says at…
- 11.The psalm "Aromimcha Hashem ki dilitani," which is said…
684The Order of the Torah Reading on ChanukahSiman 684 · 12 seifim
- 1.On all eight days of Chanukah, the Torah reading…
- 2.On the second day, the Kohen reads the portion…
- 3.On the eighth day, the Kohen reads through "mele'ah…
- 4.If the chazzan mistakenly gave all three aliyot only…
- 5.If the chazzan mistakenly ended the reading at the…
- 6.If the three aliyot on Chanukah were mistakenly given…
- 7.When the first day of Chanukah falls on Shabbat,…
- 8.When Rosh Chodesh Teves falls on a weekday of…
- 9.If the chazzan mistakenly began reading the Kohen's aliyah…
- 10.If the chazzan mistakenly gave four aliyot the Rosh…
- 11.When Rosh Chodesh Teves falls on Shabbat, three Torah…
- 12.On Shabbat and Rosh Chodesh Teves, if after the…