[Avodah] menorah on a plane

[Shlomo Pick]

Without seeing the reasoning of rav Elyashiv, it would appear to be that the
Halakha requires ner ish ubeito, i.e. the obligation to light is only where
there is a house. A train, plane or even a tent is not a house.  Moreover
the house must be yours and that brings one to the laws of achsanai (the
guest) if it is not yours.  Accordingly, anyone who would make a blessing on
the neirot chanuka on a plane would be making a bracha levatalah. Even
lighting with a minyan for ma'ariv would probably not help as one would need
a shul and lighting in a shul is a special minhag, see Shlomo Pick,
"Lighting Hanukah Candles in the Synagogue," Techumin, 23 (2003) 322 - 332
[in Hebrew] which extensively deals with this issue.

Shlomo Pick

 

 

 

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