Second Day of Yom Tov: Difference between revisions

==Lighting Candles==

# 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 no and the candles doesn't make it easier to see.</ref>

==Early Yom Tov Sheni==

# Some say that if is going to say Kiddush for the second day of Yom Tov early before nightfall, one is permitted and should light the candles before Kiddush so that one can see the candles during Kiddush. <Ref>Rav Poalim 4:23 and Ben Ish Chai (Bamidbar #2) writes that since one should see the candles while saying Kiddush, and some even say that this is absolutely necessary, lighting the candles is an immediate need and not an issue of preparing from one day of Yom Tov for the next. He goes on to explain that the dispute between the Prisha's mother and Eliyah Rabba one applies is one is lighting before nightfall and making Kiddush after nightfall. Rav Shlomo Zalman in Minchat Shlomo 1:3 mentions that some say you can take upon yourself early Yom Tov Sheni and it isn't considered a degradation of the first day of Yom Tov. However, Rivevot Efraim 6:270 advises against early yom tov sheni. Yom Tov Sheni Kehilchato p. 37 writes that one should only do so in a case of extenuating circumstances and cites Rav Elyashiv who agrees. His reasons are so that people don't come to prepare on the first day for the second and so as not to degrade the kedusha of the first day.</ref>

# Some say that if Yom Tov is on Motzei Shabbat one may not accept Yom Tov Sheni early.<ref>Rav Shlomo Zalman in Minchat Shlomo 1:3 s.v. ach</ref>

   

# An Israeli who leaves [[Israel]] and plans on returning, is forbidden from doing melacha. <ref> S”A 468:3 </ref>

# Some say that this is only melacha in public <ref> Sh”t Avkat Rochel (Rav Yosef Karo; Siman 26), Sh”t Mabit 3:149, Taz 496:3 </ref> while most say that this includes even doing melacha in private <ref> Tosfot Pesachim 52a s.v. BeYishuv, Sh”t Radvaz 4:73, 4:258, Sh”t Maharashdam 15, Sh”t Mishpat Tzedek 2:49, Magen Avraham 496:4, Birkei Yosef 496:3, Mishna Brurah 496:9, Chazon Ovadyah ([[Yom Tov]] pg 111) </ref>

# A non-Israeli who is in [[Israel]] has what to rely on ask an Israeli to do melacha for him on [[Yom Tov]] Sheni. <Ref> Yalkut Yosef (Kitzur S”A 496:27; Chazon Ovadyah ([[Yom Tov]] pg 138)) permits a non-Israeli to ask an Israeli to do melacha for him on [[Yom Tov]] Sheni. However, Sh”t Igrot Moshe 3:73 and Sh"t Shema Shlomo 1:9 forbid. Rav Elyashiv (in Kuntres Teshuvot siman 54) writes that the only concern is Memotzi Chefsecha which is permissible for a dvar mitzvah. </ref>

# Someone who is making Aliyah to [[Israel]] on condition that everything works out and hasn't yet decided to stay according to some poskim should keep only one day, while according to many others should still keep two days. <ref> Rav Elyashiv (quoted by [[Yom Tov]] Sheni KeHilchato pg 81) holds that one should keep one day, while Rav Moshe Feinstein (quoted by [[Yom Tov]] Sheni KeHilchata) and Chazon Ovadyah ([[Yom Tov]] pg 130) hold that one should keep two days (this is summarized on http://www.dailyhalacha.com/Display.asp?ClipID=2118) </ref>

# A Sephardic unmarried Yeshiva student should observe only one day of [[Yom Tov]] because he doesn’t have an established in either place and we therefore hope that he will find a good wife and job and be able to remain in [[Israel]]. <Ref> Chazon Ovadia (Rav Ovadyah Yosef) page 130, Sh"t Yabea Omer 6:40, Sh"t Yechave Daat 1:26 </ref>

=="One and a Half Days"==

#There is a third possibility sometimes referred to as one and a half days. This doesn't mean to refrain from doing melacha for half of the day but rather to keep the stringencies of those keeping one day and those keeping two. This means not doing any melacha on the second day of [[Yom Tov]], but wearing [[tefillin]] with a beracha. (Second day of [[shavuot]], eight day of [[pesach]], and ninth day of [[sukkot]], or for those who wear [[tefillin]] on [[chol hamoed]] also second days of [[pesach]] and [[sukkot]]) <ref> Nefesh Harav 84-85. This is the opinion of Rav Chaim Soloveitchik quoted in Mesorah torah journal (http://www.ou.org/pdf/mesorah/mes%206.pdf) volume 6 page 18.  </ref>

==Burials on Yom Tov Sheni==

# Practically funerals shouldn’t be performed on Yom Tov, on the first day or even Yom Tov sheni.<ref>

* Chelkat Yakov 192 shows from numerous sources that it is permitted to delay the funeral to avoid chilul yom tov sheni, such as if people will drive to the funeral. One proof is that it is beneficial to violate a small aveirah in order to save someone else from a greater sin and delaying a burial is more lenient in that if it is for his honor it is permitted and chilul yom tov sheni is more serious since the rabbis treated it like a Biblical day of Yom Tov. Additionally it would for the honor of the dead person to delay the funeral so that there’s no desecration of Yom Tov. Finally, he says that it is an explicit gemara Shabbat 139a that it is permitted to delay a funeral on Yom Tov sheni to avoid a desecration of Yom Tov sheni.

* Rav Moshe Feinstein (Igrot Moshe OC 3:76) agrees based on Tosfot b”k 81a s.v. omer that it is a honor to the dead person to delay the funeral to avoid desecration of Yom Tov sheni such as people driving or making calls to relatives to come to the funeral. </ref>

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