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===If One Doesn't Have Enough Candles=== | ===If One Doesn't Have Enough Candles=== | ||
# If one only has enough oil for one night and not all 8, he should light for one night according to Halacha and the rest of the nights he will be exempt because it is beyond his control. He should not split it into 8 cups and light less than the halachically required amount on each night. <ref> Chazon Ovadia pg. 28, Shu"t Sde Ha'aretz OC 3:34. | # If one only has enough oil for one night and not all 8, he should light for one night according to Halacha and the rest of the nights he will be exempt because it is beyond his control. He should not split it into 8 cups and light less than the halachically required amount on each night. <ref> Chazon Ovadia pg. 28, Shu"t Sde Ha'aretz OC 3:34. | ||
* The Beit Yosef famously asks why it is that we celebrate Chanuka for 8 days, if after all they had enough oil for one day, so the miracle was only for 7 days. One of the answers he proposes is that in they split the one cup of oil into 8 parts, and it miraculously lit for the full time. Accordingly, the Neta Sorek (Chiddushei Sugyot 73b) and Divrei Tzvi 671 write that if you only have enough oil for one night, you should split it into 8 cups. However, Chazon Ovadia pg. 28 writes that most | * The Beit Yosef famously asks why it is that we celebrate Chanuka for 8 days, if after all they had enough oil for one day, so the miracle was only for 7 days. One of the answers he proposes is that in they split the one cup of oil into 8 parts, and it miraculously lit for the full time. Accordingly, the Neta Sorek (Chiddushei Sugyot 73b) and Divrei Tzvi 671 write that if you only have enough oil for one night, you should split it into 8 cups. However, Chazon Ovadia pg. 28 writes that most poskim disagree and argue that there is no proof from there because the Beit Hamikdash was different because they were accustomed to miracles.</ref> | ||
# | # If one has two cups of oil on the second night, and can light the full amount for that night, but he doesn't have anything for the future nights, he should only light one that night and save the other for the next night. <ref> Chayei Adam 154:25, Chazon Ovadia pg. 29 </ref> | ||
# If, on the eighth night, one doesn't have enough for all 8 candles, he should put enough into one candle to light for the full time, and split the rest between other cups to light 8 for a short amount of time. He should not split all the oil into 8 and be left without a candle that will light for the full amount of time.<ref>Magen Avraham 671:1, Eliya Rabba 671:1, Chazon Ovadia pg. 29 </ref> | |||
==How long should the candles last?== | ==How long should the candles last?== | ||
