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# The custom is to light a candle on the yahrtzeit of a parent. <ref> Magen Avraham OC 261:6 | # The custom is to light a candle on the yahrtzeit of a parent. <ref> Magen Avraham OC 261:6 quotes the Maharshal 46 that if one forgot to light it earlier, he can ask a non-Jew to light a yahrtzeit candle during bein hashemashot. Chazon Ovadia (Aveilut v. 3 p. 54) quotes many sources regarding the minhag is to light a candle on the yehrzeit of a parent. </ref> | ||
# Some poskim say that you cannot use an electric light as a yahrtzeit candle. <Ref> Mishneh Halachot 5:70</ref> Others permit it to fulfill this minhag.<ref>Chazon Ovadia (Aveilut v 3. p. 54). </ref> | # Some poskim say that you cannot use an electric light as a yahrtzeit candle. <Ref> Mishneh Halachot 5:70</ref> Others permit it to fulfill this minhag.<ref>Chazon Ovadia (Aveilut v 3. p. 54). </ref> | ||
