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# If one can’t get olive oil, one should use wax <Ref> S”A 264:7 </ref> or paraffin candles. <Ref> Menuchat Ahava (vol 1 4:3) writes that the electric candles aren’t worse than wax candles. </ref> | # If one can’t get olive oil, one should use wax <Ref> S”A 264:7 </ref> or paraffin candles. <Ref> Menuchat Ahava (vol 1 4:3) writes that the electric candles aren’t worse than wax candles. </ref> | ||
# If one can’t get oil or wax candles at all one should turn on the electric lights with a Bracha. <Ref> Sh”t Yechave Daat 5:24 </ref> | # If one can’t get oil or wax candles at all one should turn on the electric lights with a Bracha. <Ref> Sh”t Yechave Daat 5:24 </ref> | ||
# It's preferable to light with olive oil, if one doesn't have olive oil, the next best is all other oils that burn with a clear flame, and lastly, wax candles are also acceptable. <ref> S"A 264:6 writes that olive oil is preferable to other oils and Mishna Brurah 264:23 adds that wax candles are inferior to oil candles. | # It's preferable to light with olive oil, if one doesn't have olive oil, the next best is all other oils that burn with a clear flame, and lastly, wax candles are also acceptable. <ref> S"A 264:6 writes that olive oil is preferable to other oils and Mishna Brurah 264:23 adds that wax candles are inferior to oil candles. This is also the opinion of Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 43:4 and Yalkut Yosef ([[Shabbat]] vol 1 pg 187). </ref> | ||
# Many poskim hold that if one can’t light with candles, one may light an electric bulb with a bracha. <ref>Shemirat [[Shabbat]] Kehilchata 43:4 rules that one has what to rely on to make a bracha upon lighting an electric bulb as [[Shabbat candles]]. Rav Mordechai Willig (ibid. min 49-51), Yabia Omer O.C. 2:17, and Rav Henkin (Eidut LeYisrael p. 122) agree. See also The Radiance of [[Shabbos]] (p. 12) who quotes Rav Moshe Feinstein as saying that one should not recite a bracha on an electric light. Shemirat [[Shabbat]] Kehilchata 43:4 rules that one has what to rely on to make the bracha on an electric bulb with the qualification that it's lit for kavod [[shabbat]]. Rav Ovadyah Yosef (Yalkut Yosef [[Shabbat]] vol 1 pg 188, Yabia Omer OC 2:17) agrees that one can make a bracha on it but emphasizes that it's a last option and that preferably one should have a designation that the bulb is for [[Shabbat]] candles.</ref> Some say that this only includes incandescent bulbs and not fluorescent.<Ref>Rav Hershel Schachter (“Lighting [[Shabbos]] Candles,” min 36-7) holds that while one may light an incandescent bulb with a bracha, one may not light a fluorescent or neon bulb with a bracha.</ref> | # Many poskim hold that if one can’t light with candles, one may light an electric bulb with a bracha. <ref>Shemirat [[Shabbat]] Kehilchata 43:4 rules that one has what to rely on to make a bracha upon lighting an electric bulb as [[Shabbat candles]]. Rav Mordechai Willig (ibid. min 49-51), Yabia Omer O.C. 2:17, and Rav Henkin (Eidut LeYisrael p. 122) agree. See also The Radiance of [[Shabbos]] (p. 12) who quotes Rav Moshe Feinstein as saying that one should not recite a bracha on an electric light. Shemirat [[Shabbat]] Kehilchata 43:4 rules that one has what to rely on to make the bracha on an electric bulb with the qualification that it's lit for kavod [[shabbat]]. Rav Ovadyah Yosef (Yalkut Yosef [[Shabbat]] vol 1 pg 188, Yabia Omer OC 2:17) agrees that one can make a bracha on it but emphasizes that it's a last option and that preferably one should have a designation that the bulb is for [[Shabbat]] candles.</ref> Some say that this only includes incandescent bulbs and not fluorescent.<Ref>Rav Hershel Schachter (“Lighting [[Shabbos]] Candles,” min 36-7) holds that while one may light an incandescent bulb with a bracha, one may not light a fluorescent or neon bulb with a bracha.</ref> | ||
==How many candles?== | ==How many candles?== | ||
