On your chanukiah, you should see 9 slots for candles, with eight slots on one level and one slot elevated above the rest. This is the spot for the shamash, or the candle used to light all the other candles. Place one candle in this elevated spot. Every night of Chanukah, you place and light the shamash first before the other candles.
Its position also alludes to its important role of lighting the other candles. Some choose traditional blue and white candles, while others prefer differently colored candles! People incorrectly call the chanukiah a menorah, but they have become accepted as the same thing. If you wish to be technically accurate, call the candelabra a chanukiah. You need to use a candle or oil chanukiah to fulfill the mitzvah the commandment or good deed of lighting the chanukiah.
Add the other candles. Every night of Chanukah, you add one more candle. On the first night of Chanukah, place a candle in the right-most slot. After the first night of Chanukah, add one candle for each night, starting from the right-most slot and going left. Place the candle representing the second night of Chanukah in the slot next to the previous candle the second to the right-most slot. On the third night, place the candles as you did on the second night, adding a fourth candle in the slot third to the right.
What's the soonest I can display the empty menorah? Do I need to wait until the first night of Hanukkah? You can have it ready as early as you wish. Lighting it, though, starts on the first night. Yes No. Not Helpful 2 Helpful When the first candle is lighted after prayer, do I put off the candle until the last day which all the candles are left to burn down?
No, you use different candles each night, always letting them burn down. Not Helpful 8 Helpful I've heard of people doing this, though it is not common.
It makes a certain sense though, as one can consider it the same as the oil slowly being used up. If you're concerned about whether or not it's proper, better ask a rabbi. Not Helpful 4 Helpful Not Helpful 11 Helpful In Judaism, there is a principle that the right is superior to the left unless indicated otherwise in a certain situation.
Not Helpful 3 Helpful What happens if candle number one is completely extinguished prior to lighting the eighth candle? You should select candles that will burn for at least a half hour.
Light all your candles, from left to right, after the last prayer is said. This should take less than a minute in total You need two candles the first night, three the second night, four the third night and so on.
The colors are not really important. As a matter of fact, you could use all candles of the same color, or just 2 colors. Not Helpful 6 Helpful After the eighth night, how long do we keep burning the candles and what do we do at the end of the holiday?
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She fed him cheese to make him thirsty and wine to quench his thirst ; and after getting him drunk she killed him. This was one of the events that sparked the Maccabean uprising. Food fried in oil is also eaten to commemorate the miracle of the Menorah. Latkes and donuts are the most common foods.
One should not fast during Chanukah, even on the occasion of a parent's yarhzeit anniversary of death. The festivities of Chanukah should be combined with study of Torah. Although many people have a custom to play card games on Chanukah, the Mishna Berurah states that, "He who cares for his soul should not involve himself in card games. If a poor person needs money for Chanukah candles the community is obligated to provide for him. The minimum obligation is that every household should have one candle burning every night.
It is customary to be scrupulous regarding this mitzvah: to have one candle on the first night and an additional candle every night , and for everyone in the house as well. Any type of oil is acceptable for use in the menorah , however, it is best to use olive oil. The oil should not be made of a forbidden substance, nor should it be something from which it is forbidden to derive benefit. The menorah should be similar to the Menorah in the Temple and hence most authorities forbid using electric lights or gas lamps.
The light should be clear, and the wicks should not flicker Wax candles are also acceptable, providing they have a single wick. All wicks are acceptable, but it is best to use cotton. The same wicks may be used over and over again. It is correct to have a Menorah of glass or metal if one is lighting with oil, since other substances such as clay become disgusting after one use.
If one can afford it, it is correct to buy a beautiful Menorah. If one is using candles a Menorah is not necessary. The candles are placed on the menorah from right to left, the same direction in which one reads Hebrew. However, when lighting the menorah you move in the opposite direction, using the shamash to the light the candles from left to right. Eh, do your best. How many candles will you need? Each night a new candle is added to the menorah, plus a shamash, and burned all the way through.
There is a clearly defined height limit for menorahs of feet-tall. In New York City, two menorahs rival each other for height. One is in Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn and is claimed to have a shamash that is six inches higher than its Manhattan competitor located on the corner of Fifth Ave. Potato pancakes and jelly donuts are traditional dishes to eat for Hanukkah. The miracle of the oil lasting eight days is not only celebrated through the lighting of the menorah, but also in the traditional foods that are eaten.
Two of the most popular dishes, latkes potato pancakes and sufganiyot jelly donuts , are both deep-fried in oil.
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