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==Lighting outdoors== | ==Lighting outdoors== | ||
* The Briatta in Gemara Shabbat 23a states that Chanuka candles should be lit outside by the door of the house. There’s a dispute where one has a courtyard between one’s doorway and the public domain if the candles should be placed by the house door or the courtyard’s entrance to the public domain. Rashi (D”H MeBaChutz) writes that it should put in the courtyard and not public domain, whereas Tosfot D”H Mitzvah argue that it should be placed by the entrance to the courtyard. [The Ran (Shabbat 9b D”H Tanu) agrees with Rashi.] Tur and S”A 671:5 rule like Tosfot that the candles should be placed at the entrance to the courtyard. | * The Briatta in Gemara Shabbat 23a states that Chanuka candles should be lit outside by the door of the house. There’s a dispute where one has a courtyard between one’s doorway and the public domain if the candles should be placed by the house door or the courtyard’s entrance to the public domain. Rashi (D”H MeBaChutz) writes that it should put in the courtyard and not public domain, whereas Tosfot D”H Mitzvah argue that it should be placed by the entrance to the courtyard. [The Ran (Shabbat 9b D”H Tanu) agrees with Rashi.] Tur and S”A 671:5 rule like Tosfot that the candles should be placed at the entrance to the courtyard. | ||
* | * Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (Halichot Shlomo 14:4) 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)) agree that even nowadays the stairwell and path is considered a courtyard.] However, the Chazon Ish (Orchot Rabbenu vol 3, pg 3, Piskei Shemuot pg 42 quoting Rav Nissim Karlitz) held that nowadays one may not light by the entrance to a courtyard. | ||
==Lighting indoors== | ==Lighting indoors== | ||
* This is all assuming that one is lighting outside. However, the Gemara 23a adds that in times of danger one should light on one’s table indoors. Rashi D”H HaSakana writes that the danger was because the Persians outlawed lighted candles except in the houses of idolatry. This is quoted by the Tur and Shulchan Aruch 671:5 as the halacha. However, the Rama 671:7 writes that the accepted minhag is to light indoors by the door. (For the explanation and defense of this minhag to light indoors [[Placement_of_the_Chanuka_Candles#Placement_of_the_Chanukia| see here]].) | * This is all assuming that one is lighting outside. However, the Gemara 23a adds that in times of danger one should light on one’s table indoors. Rashi D”H HaSakana writes that the danger was because the Persians outlawed lighted candles except in the houses of idolatry. This is quoted by the Tur and Shulchan Aruch 671:5 as the halacha. However, the Rama 671:7 writes that the accepted minhag is to light indoors by the door. (For the explanation and defense of this minhag to light indoors [[Placement_of_the_Chanuka_Candles#Placement_of_the_Chanukia| see here]].) | ||
