Lighting in Shul: Difference between revisions

# Many poskim write that if one is going to light at a public [[gathering]] such as a [[chanuka]] party or a wedding, they should do so without a beracha. <ref> Sh"t Tzitz Eliezer 15:30 writes that since the poskim had to work hard to justify the minhag of lighting in a shul, we shouldn't extend it to other lighting. Minchat Yitzchak 6:65:3, Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (opinion cited in Sh"t Az Nidberu 6:75, though Rav Zilber himself disagrees, see below), Sh"t shevet halevi 4:65, teshuvot vihanhagot 1:398, divrei yatziv 286:3 also say not to light in public places other than the shuls. </ref> Other poskim disagree and allow it for the pirsumei nisa. <ref> Chacham David Yosef in Torat Hamoadim Hilchot [[Chanukah]] 7:16 says a beracha shouldn't be recited unless [[Arvit]] is recited at that [[gathering]]. Yalkut Yosef [[Chanukah]] 671:10 however, writes that although in Yalkut Yosef Moadim pg. 204 he wrote that you would need to say [[arvit]] to be able to say a beracha on the lighting in that place, his father said that really [[arvit]] is not necessary, and one would be able to recite a beracha on the lighting even if there wasn't a [[minyan]] for [[arvit]] afterwards. He adds that nevertheless one should try to recite [[arvit]]. Mishnat Yaakov on the Rambam [[Chanukah]] 3:4, Sh"t Az Nidberu 5:37, Sh"t Yad Natan 2:25, Sht Mishneh Sachir 202, Sh"t Beit Mordechai 41 say that a beracha can be recited as well. [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/785327/Rabbi_Aryeh_Lebowitz/Ten_Minute_Halacha_-_Public_Menorah_Lighting Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz] adds that this seems to be the minhag Chabad as well. </ref>  

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