[Avodah] candles

[Ilana Sober]

Sorry for posting without proper research - I see now that the Rosh, brought down in the SA, says one should davka use a wax candle for bedikat chametz, not tallow because it drips (and is fleishig or treif, depending) and certainly not oil because it drips and the lamp is also hard to get into chorin usdakin.

Although that is still not necessarily a source for what chazal actually did.

- Ilana
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