[Avodah] With Which Hand?

[Yisrael Medad]

Due to my wife's trip to visit parents in the USA, I was left to my own to
make Havdalah.
As I began to recite, I suddenly thought to myself - well, here I am with
the becher in my left hand and the candle in my right but is that the proper
way?  Should it be the other way around, with the becher in my right (the
more important hand?), or if I feel more safe with the flaming candle in my
right, is the way I am okay?

Trying to be on the safe side, after placing the becher down to sniff the
b'samim, I then switched.

Afterwards, I tried a perusory check and found in the MB, Hilchot Shabbat,
298:3, that the Rama notes that when looking at one's fingernails for the
reflection, it is one's right hand fingernails that get the look and the
becher is in the left hand.  But that doesn't fully answer my question: in
which hand does one start out with holding the becher: the left or the
right?

Any summer bachelors out there with the answer?

-- 
Yisrael Medad
Shiloh
Mobile Post Efraim 44830
Israel
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