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<font size=3>At 03:52 PM 6/4/2009, Shlomo Pick wrote:<br><br>
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<font size=2 color="#000080">I see that being in nyc you are unfamiliar
with the concept of tnai and hadlakat neriot. Anyone having a half an
hour to an hour walk to shul, will light candles on yom kippur eve at
home, make a stipulation not to be accept yom tov, and drive to shul to
save an hour trip. </font></blockquote><br>
I am very familiar with this, because, even though I live only a 10
minute walk from where I daven on Yom Kippur, I usually drive to shul
Erev YK so that I can drive home after YK when I am usually
tired. <br><br>
(I have to add here that my wife refuses to do this. She insists that
once she lights candles Erev YK it is YK for her. All of my attempts to
convince her that she can do what you suggest have fallen on deaf ears
for years! If I drive, she walks.) <br><br>
But I think that you have missed the point I tried to make. Surely you
will agree that if someone were to light candles before plag Ha Mincha
with a tenai and then drive for 2 hours to get to shul, that this is
nothing. One cannot light candles before plag for Shabbos or Yom
Tov.<br><br>
It seems to me that according to the Netziv who holds that there is no
Tosefos Yom Tov for Shavuous, lighting candles before Tzeis is the same
as lighting them before plag. This was my point. <br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=2 color="#000080">The
reasoning is simple, the bracha over the ner is a birchat mitzvah, there
is an issue whether the person who lights is mekabel shabbos with the
bracha or not. </font></blockquote><br>
But it seems to me that there is no mitzvah to fulfill Erev Shavuous
before Tzais according to the Netziv, since Shavuous does not begin
until Tzeis.<br>
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Yitzchok Levine</body>
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