[Avodah] Candles

[Zev Sero]

On Areivim, Ilana Sober wrote:

> Second, it seems to me that even if our grandparents and greatgrandparents
> in Europe used a candle, Chazal did not. "Ner" means an oil lamp, a little
> earthenware vessel with a wick, which was invented thousands of years before
> those newfangled wax candles.

Chazal certainly had both beeswax and tallow candles, and called them
"nerot".


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