Havdalah: Difference between revisions
From Halachipedia
→When Motzei Shabbat is a Yom Tov
(→Fire) |
|||
| Line 14: | Line 14: | ||
#If motzei shabbat is yom tov, one may use the Yom Tov candles for havdalah.<ref>Or Letzion (v. 3, 18:6)</ref> | #If motzei shabbat is yom tov, one may use the Yom Tov candles for havdalah.<ref>Or Letzion (v. 3, 18:6)</ref> | ||
#It is preferable not to hold the two candles together.<ref>Or Letzion (v. 3, 18:6) based on Biur Halacha 514:2 s.v. veyechabeh</ref> | #It is preferable not to hold the two candles together.<ref>Or Letzion (v. 3, 18:6) based on Biur Halacha 514:2 s.v. veyechabeh. Yom Tov Sheni Khilchato ch. 1 fnt. 67 quotes Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach and Rav Moshe Feinstein (quoted from Rav Efraim Greenblatt) as explaining that although generally we prefer to use a torch with two or more wicks for havdalah, on Yom Tov we avoid this. The reason is that on yom tov holding two candles together is likely going to come to an issue of extinguishing one of the candles more quickly. Even if they are touching it is permitted to detach them. Yet he also cites Rabbi Eider (Halachos of Shabbos 266 fnt. 34) in the name of Rav Moshe permits putting them together. He concludes with a citation of Rabbi Akiva Eiger OC 669 and YD 1 that even on a regular motzei Shabbat two candles next to one another is sufficient, yet we don't generally follow that opinion (Magen Avraham 298:4).</ref> | ||
==Who is Obligated== | ==Who is Obligated== | ||
