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# It is preferable to light candles before Yom Tov rather than on Yom Tov.<ref>Mateh Efraim 625:33. [https://www.jewishpress.com/judaism/halacha-hashkafa/yom-tov-candles-obligation-or-violation/2021/05/13/ Rabbi Yaakov Hoffman] notes that nowadays that we have electric lights it is more important to light before Yom Tov with the lights off and then turn them on as opposed to lighting after Yom Tov begins and it is forbidden to turn off and on lights.</ref> | # It is preferable to light candles before Yom Tov rather than on Yom Tov.<ref>Mateh Efraim 625:33. [https://www.jewishpress.com/judaism/halacha-hashkafa/yom-tov-candles-obligation-or-violation/2021/05/13/ Rabbi Yaakov Hoffman] notes that nowadays that we have electric lights it is more important to light before Yom Tov with the lights off and then turn them on as opposed to lighting after Yom Tov begins and it is forbidden to turn off and on lights.</ref> | ||
==Second Day Yom Tov== | |||
# Most poskim hold that one must light the candles for the second day of Yom Tov after nightfall because it is forbidden to prepare from one day of Yom Tov for the next.<ref> The son of the Prisha (Introduction to Prisha YD) quotes his mother as saying that on the second day of Yom Tov one must light after nightfall so as not to prepare from one day of Yom Tov for the next. The Levush 488 and Eliyah Rabba 488:7 argues that one may light before nightfall as long as it is getting dark out because the candles are beneficial even for the first day so that one can see better in the light. Mishna Brurah 514:33 agrees. Nitai Gavriel (Yom Tov v. 2, 15:3, p. 107) points out that the Eliyah Rabba would agree with the Prisha's mother in the common case where there are electric lights on and the candles doesn't make it easier to see.</ref> | |||
# Usually it is strongly recommended by the poskim to turn off the electric lights before lighting and then turn them on after and as part of one's lighting. However, when lighting for the second day of Yom Tov or a Shabbat when Friday is a Yom Tov it isn't possible to light in the dining room while it is dark and then turn on the electric lights. Therefore, a few solutions are suggested: | |||
## Some recommend setting a timer to turn off the lights at the time when one will need to light Yom Tov or Shabbat candles. Then the timer will turn back on the electric lights.<Ref>Chazon Ovadia Shabbat v. 1 p. 217 quoting Beer Moshe 5:64:86, 5:115:11, and 8:62, Yalkut Yosef 5772 Shabbat v. 1 Sh"t n. 4, [https://www.jewishpress.com/judaism/halacha-hashkafa/yom-tov-candles-obligation-or-violation/2021/05/13/ Rabbi Yaakov Hoffman]</ref> | |||
## Another solution is to light in a dark room, such as a bedroom, and use the light of the candles there for a few minutes. Afterwards if one wants to move them to where one is eating one may do so on Yom Tov but not on Shabbat.<ref>Chazon Ovadia Shabbat v. 1 p. 217 quoting Beer Moshe 5:64:86, 5:115:11, and 8:62</ref> | |||
## Some hold not to light Yom Tov Sheni candles at all nowadays.<ref>Rav Hershel Schachter's opinion as cited by [https://www.jewishpress.com/judaism/halacha-hashkafa/yom-tov-candles-obligation-or-violation/2021/05/13/ Rabbi Yaakov Hoffman]</ref> | |||
## Some allow lighting even though the electric lights are already lit.<ref>See [[Shabbat_Candles#Where_to_light]]</ref> | |||
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