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# Nothing is added into the beracha of meayn shalosh (al hamichya, al hagefen, or all haetz) for [[chanuka]]. <ref> Mishna Brurah 682:2, Yalkut Yosef Moadim 240, Yabia Omer 3:36. Yalkut Yosef also adds that if you did say something by mistake, you would not go back. </ref>
# Nothing is added into the beracha of meayn shalosh (al hamichya, al hagefen, or all haetz) for [[chanuka]]. <ref> Mishna Brurah 682:2, Yalkut Yosef Moadim 240, Yabia Omer 3:36. Yalkut Yosef also adds that if you did say something by mistake, you would not go back. </ref>
#Al hanissim is recited even on the first night of [[chanuka]], even if you haven't lit candles yet, as well as [[Mussaf]] of [[shabbat]] and [[Mussaf]] of [[rosh chodesh]] even though there is no [[Mussaf]] on [[chanuka]]. <ref> http://www.dailyhalacha.com/displayRead.asp?readID=1063 </ref>
#Al hanissim is recited even on the first night of [[chanuka]], even if you haven't lit candles yet, as well as [[Mussaf]] of [[shabbat]] and [[Mussaf]] of [[rosh chodesh]] even though there is no [[Mussaf]] on [[chanuka]]. <ref> http://www.dailyhalacha.com/displayRead.asp?readID=1063 </ref>
#One should not skip al hanissim in order that he be able to finish shemoneh esrei in time so that he can answer [[kaddish]] or [[kedusha]]. <ref>  According to Rav Ovadia the same would apply on [[rosh chodesh]] with [[Yaaleh VeYavo]], as well as aneinu on a fast day and this is despite the fact that the shemoneh esrei is entirely valid without them and according to some poskim the [[kedusha]] is a diorayta. </ref>
# If someone is saying Shemona Esrei and realizes that if he is going to say Al Hanissim he won’t be able to catch Kedusha with the congregation he shouldn’t skip Al Hanissim.<Ref>Chazon Ovadia Chanuka p. 194 writes that he shouldn’t skip Al Hanissim in order to reach kedusha with the congregation. Yabia Omer OC 2:34, 9:66, Yalkut Yosef Moadim p. 240, Yechave Daat 1:77, Tzemach Tzedek Miluyim 11, Pri Hasadeh 3:109 agreed with Chazon Ovadia against the Yaskil Avdi 8:10. Here are the reasons of Chazon Ovadia:
# If someone is saying Shemona Esrei and realizes that if he is going to say Al Hanissim he won’t be able to catch Kedusha with the congregation he shouldn’t skip Al Hanissim.<Ref>Chazon Ovadia Chanuka p. 194 writes that he shouldn’t skip Al Hanissim in order to reach kedusha with the congregation. Yabia Omer OC 2:34, 9:66, Yalkut Yosef Moadim p. 240, Yechave Daat 1:77, Tzemach Tzedek Miluyim 11, Pri Hasadeh 3:109 agreed with Chazon Ovadia against the Yaskil Avdi 8:10. Here are the reasons of Chazon Ovadia:
* a) One is currently involved in a mitzvah of Shemona Esrei which includes Al Hanissim and so one shouldn’t stop one mitzvah to do another mitzvah based on the principle of Osek Bmitzvah Patur Min Hamitzvah (Ritva Sukkah).   
* a) One is currently involved in a mitzvah of Shemona Esrei which includes Al Hanissim and so one shouldn’t stop one mitzvah to do another mitzvah based on the principle of Osek Bmitzvah Patur Min Hamitzvah (Ritva Sukkah).