- Q. My dear Rabbi. Our shul is planing to do a large Chanuka party inviting many neighbors that are not our usual attending youngsters and children, the aim is to bring them closer to keeping Torah and Mitzvoth. There have been a number of attractive suggestion. I would like to hear the Rov’s so commonly accepted opinion.
1) Is it proper to give a well protected candle to hold by the attendants including youngsters, so they will fill part of the Simcha?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O. H. 675: 1) rules that if one lights a candle and keeps on holding on to it, there is no compliance with the mitzva, since it appears that one is just holding it for his own benefit of being able to see.
Although some modern Rabbis may permit and even encourage the above, Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that it should be avoided as it also resembles the traditions of other religions.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit'a
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