[Avodah] beis shammai chanukah??

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 02:44:01PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
> On 19/07/2011 12:35 PM, Harvey Benton wrote:
>> we hold for some reason that we
>> need to put them in the opposite
>> order than lighting

> Huh?  Since when?

If RHB means the order we add to the menorah from one day to the next
(as opposed to the order we actually put the lights in each night)...

See the BY (OC 676), citing the Terumas haDeshen, showing that this is
a machloqes and different communities do differently.

The Mordechai and Mahariq say that candles are added to the menorah from
right to left and lighting procedes from left to right. The SA advocates
this shita (se'if 5), as does the Darkhei Moshe besheim the Maharil.

The Terumas haDeshen would have you light from right to left, or (shitah
2) from the light which is within a tefach of the entrence.

I presume therefore that RHB is referring to the well populated first
shitah.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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