[Avodah] The laining on Chanuka in chu"l and EY

[Marty Bluke]

I have lived in EY for a number of years and to my embarrassment until
last year had not even realized that the laining here on Chanuka in EY
is different then in chutz laaretz.

On Chanuka we read the parsha of the nesiim, every day the nasi for
that day. Each nasi is 6 pesukim and we have 3 aliyas. That means we
are 3 pesukim short. There is a machlokes the Mechaber and the Rama
how we remedy the situation. The Mechaber writes that we simply read
over that day. In other words, tomorrow morning Kohen will read the
first 3 pesukim of the 2nd nasi, Levi will read the next 3, and the
third aliya simply repeats all 6 pesukim of the 2nd nasi. The Rama on
the other hand says, that for the third aliya you simply read the next
day. In other words, tomorrow morning Kohen will read the first 3
pesukim of the 2nd nasi, Levi will read the next 3, and the third
aliya reads the 3rd nasi. In chu"l the minhag is like the Rama and in
EY the minhag is like the mechaber even for Ashkenazim.

The Gra points out that this is l'shitasam by chol hamoed succos. On
chol hamoed succos the problem is greater, each day is only 3 pesukim
and there are 4 aliyos. According to the Mechaber in chu"l kohen and
levi read the 2 days of sefeka d'yoma and then the next 2 aliyas
simply repeat them. The Rama writes that shlishi reads the next day
and revii goes back on the first 2 days. In EY the mechaber writes
that we simply repeat the same thing 4 times. Here also the minhag in
EY is like the mechaber.

The machlokes would seem to be does the next day have any connection
to today and does it make sense to read it.

Interestingly enough the Ashkenazim in EY are noheg like the Mechaber
both on Succos and on Chanuka.