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# Someone traveling all night in a car, train, plane, or boat and has no one lighting for him at home should preferably light there without a Bracha and make [[Brachot]] HaRoeh. <ref> Rashi 23a s.v. HaRoah says one only makes [[Brachot]] Haroah when on a boat. So quotes in name of Rashi, Machsor Vitri pg 201, Itur ([[Chanukah]] 2 pg 117c), Smag ([[Chanukah]]), Smak (280), Ravyah 3:843, Or Zaruah 2:325, Tosfot Rid ([[Shabbat]] 23a), and Rosh ([[Shabbat]] 2:8). This is also the opinion of Rav Moshe Feinstein in Igrot Moshe Y”D 3:14(5). However Sh”t Maharsham 5:144 writes only in an unroofed boat one can’t light but in a train one should light. This is also the opinion of Rav Tzvi [[Pesach]] Frank in Mikra’eh Kodesh ([[Chanukah]] 18e), Rav Ovadyah Yosef (Kol Sinai Kislev 5725), Aruch HaShulchan 677:5, Sh”t Mishna Halachot 7:86, and Sh”t Tzitz Eliezer 15:29 (he says one should light even if he’s in an unroofed boat); Torat Hamoadim 2:18 says since there’s a safek for Rashi’s opinion one shouldn’t make the Bracha but can make [[Brachot]] HaRoeh. </ref> | # Someone traveling all night in a car, train, plane, or boat and has no one lighting for him at home should preferably light there without a Bracha and make [[Brachot]] HaRoeh. <ref> Rashi 23a s.v. HaRoah says one only makes [[Brachot]] Haroah when on a boat. So quotes in name of Rashi, Machsor Vitri pg 201, Itur ([[Chanukah]] 2 pg 117c), Smag ([[Chanukah]]), Smak (280), Ravyah 3:843, Or Zaruah 2:325, Tosfot Rid ([[Shabbat]] 23a), and Rosh ([[Shabbat]] 2:8). This is also the opinion of Rav Moshe Feinstein in Igrot Moshe Y”D 3:14(5). However Sh”t Maharsham 5:144 writes only in an unroofed boat one can’t light but in a train one should light. This is also the opinion of Rav Tzvi [[Pesach]] Frank in Mikra’eh Kodesh ([[Chanukah]] 18e), Rav Ovadyah Yosef (Kol Sinai Kislev 5725), Aruch HaShulchan 677:5, Sh”t Mishna Halachot 7:86, and Sh”t Tzitz Eliezer 15:29 (he says one should light even if he’s in an unroofed boat); Torat Hamoadim 2:18 says since there’s a safek for Rashi’s opinion one shouldn’t make the Bracha but can make [[Brachot]] HaRoeh. </ref> | ||
==Performing Labors while the Candles are Burning== | |||
# There is a longstanding practice that women not to do any work while the candles are lit, to remind them that it is prohibited to benefit from the light of Chanuka candles.<ref> Tur and S"A 670:1, Aruch Hashulchan 670:8, Yalkut Yosef Moadim pg. 190, Chazon Ovadia Chanuka pg. 12 <br /> | |||
This practice is brought down by Tur and S”A (670:1), Aruch Hashulchan 670:8. Mor Ukesiah 670 explains that the practice is to show that it’s forbidden to use the light of the candles. The Taz 670:2 says that the custom is similar to their custom of abstaining from melacha on [[Rosh Chodesh]]. The basis for the custom on [[Rosh Chodesh]] is that the women did not participate in the sin of the Golden Calf so they were rewarded with the [[Rosh Chodesh]]. Similarly, since the miracle of [[Chanukah]] was brought about through the heroic actions of Yehudis, it is a worthy custom for women to commemorate this by abstaining from melacha. Chayei Adam [[Chanukah]] 154:3 also mentions the story of Yehudit as the basis for this custom. </ref> However, this only applies to strenuous labor such as sewing or weaving but not cooking or baking.<ref> Chazon Ovadia Chanuka pg. 12, Shu"t Shraga Hameir 6:87:2, Shu"t Kinyan Torah 7:52, Beer Moshe (brought in Nitei Gavriel pg. 218), Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky (Emes Liyaakov footnote to Siman 671, [http://www.dailyhalacha.com/m/halacha.aspx?id=3001 Rabbi Eli Mansour] </ref> | |||
# This only applies for the half hour that the Chanuka candles have to burn halachically.<ref>Chazon Ovadia Chanuka pg. 12, [http://www.dailyhalacha.com/m/halacha.aspx?id=3001 Rabbi Eli Mansour], Eliyah Raba 670:2, Kaf HaChaim 670:8, and Mishna Brurah 670:4 say that it’s only forbidden during the half hour of lighting which is a mitzvah against the Magen Avraham 670:2 in name of the Magelei Tzedek who says that it applies as long as the candles are lit. </ref> | |||
# Although some women have the practice to not perform labor at all on Chanuka, this practice is incorrect because this is excessive idelness.<ref> Chazon Ovadia Chanuka pg. 13, Yalkut Yosef Kitzur S"A 670:3, Mishna Berura 670:5 </ref> | |||
# Men can do melacha as usual on Chanuka.<ref> Chazon Ovadia Chanuka pg. 14, Mateh Moshe 974, Pri Chadash 670, Bach 670, Taz 670:2 </ref> | |||
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