[Avodah] candles

[saul mashbaum]

RISober mentioned that she starts bdikat chametz with a candle, and then switches to a flashlight, a more effective implement.
My wife once went to a shiur for English speakers here in Israel on the halachot of bdikat chametz. One of the participants asked if one could use a torch for bdikat chametz. The rov was emphatic that it could not, and expressed some surprise one would want to use a torch instead of a candle. It took a while for everyone to realize that what the questioner, a British native, called a torch is what the American rov called a flashlight. Once this was cleared up, the rov answered the question in the affirmative.
Saul Mashbaum
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