[Avodah] Lighting Neros on Yom Tov

[Daniel Israel]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:14:25 -0700 Jacob Farkas 
<jfarkas at compufar.com> wrote:
>R' Akiva Miller wrote:
>> Are there any other poskim who deal with this question? In light 
of 
>> Shaar Hatziyun 435:9, how do we light Neros Yom Tov when the 
room is 
>> already full of electric light? Perhaps we must arrange things 
so 
>> that they are lit only in a dark room?
>
>I have yet to see any posqim deal with a hypothetical case of 
frying an 
>egg on Yomtov when there is a fridge full of prepared food, either.

Actually, although I've never seen the case specifically discussed, 
it would seem to me that the heter is only because one presumably 
wants a freshly fried egg, which one would not have already in the 
fridge.  If, OTOH, one wanted a hard boiled egg, and there was 
already one in the fridge, and assuming that normal people can't 
tell the difference between just cooked and one day old, and 
further that there is no significant possibility that a second egg 
will be needed that day of Yom Tov- I would assume that it such a 
case it would be assur.

Given that RAM explicitly assumed that Neros don't add hanah in a 
room that is already fully lit electrically his question still 
stands.  (Although I am not sure I agree with that assumption.)

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Daniel M. Israel
dmi1 at cornell.edu