[Avodah] Minhag Yerushalayim - candle lighting 40 minutes before sunset

[Simon Montagu]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Goldmeier <goldmeier at 012.net.il> wrote:

> I have been looking for the source to the Minhag Yerushalayim of lighting
> Shabbos candles
> 40 minutes before sunset.
>
> Does anyone know the source why 40 minutes?
>

In Yabia` Omer 5 OH 21, ROY brings it from "Sefer Eretz Yisrael" by RIM
Tukachinski (sp?) p. 26 "Minhag atik be'eretz Yisrael lehachriz o litkoa
lehadlakat nerot be`erev shabbat 40 dakot kodem hasheki`a", quoting Kaf
Hahhayyim 256:5

ROY himself has a different pshat in the Kaf Hahhayyim, and says that 10 or
15 minutes before sheki`a is sufficient, and that especially during Hhanukka
one should not light any earlier than that. Ayyen Sham.
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