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===If one lives in an apartment building=== | ===If one lives in an apartment building=== | ||
# See full article [[Where should one light one’s Chanukia if one lives in an apartment building?]] but here is the summary: | # See full article [[Where should one light one’s Chanukia if one lives in an apartment building?]] but here is the summary: | ||
# | # If one lives in an apartment building and one is lighting outside then one should light by the entrance to the apartment building unless there is a path leading to the public domain in which case one should light by the beginning of the path near the public domain. <ref> Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (Halichot Shlomo 14:4, Maadei Shlomo pg 110) ruled that a stairwell is considered a courtyard, therefore, if one lives in an apartment building and one is lighting outside, one should light by the entrance to the apartment building unless there is a path leading to the public domain in which case one should light by the beginning of the path near the public domain. [Rav Elyashiv (Shevut Yitzchak vol 5 pg 7) and the Brisker Rav (Piskei Shemuot (pg 41, note 21), Kol Bo Chanuka (pg 98)) agree that even nowadays the stairwell and path is considered a courtyard.] </ref> while others say that one may not light at the entrance of the apartment building.<Ref>Orchot Rabbenu (vol 3 pg 3) quotes the Chazon Ish as saying that nowadays we don’t use the stairwell like a courtyard thus one may not light there. (This is similar to the Chazon Ish OC Eiruvin 65:52). [Rav Ovadyah Yosef in Yalkut Yosef (Moadim pg 198) and Kol Torah (5725 Kislev) writes that one who lives in an apartment building should light by the window unless it is above 20 amot from the street in which case one should light by the door inside. Torat HaMoadim 2:2 (pg 74-76) infers from this that Rav Ovadyah holds one shouldn't light by the entrance of the stairwell perhaps because of the Chazon Ish's reasoning as well as the minhag to light inside.] </ref> | ||
===Windy place=== | ===Windy place=== | ||
