[Avodah] Lighting Neros on Yom Tov
Ken Bloom
kbloom at gmail.com
Mon Oct 30 07:04:27 PST 2006
On Monday 30 October 2006 00:36, Shoshana L. Boublil wrote:
> Rav Ovadia Yosef (I don't have the source) states that on Yom Tov,
> first we have to say the Beracha and only then light the candles (on
> Shabbat we light first).
Yalkut Yosef (263:33) says that even on Shabbat, the beracha comes
before lighting the candles. First, we don't bring in Shabbat by
lighting the candles (we make a tanai to that effect once each year to
be sure). Second, even if we did, Shabbat doesn't start until after
we've lit the last candle.
--Ken
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Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
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