<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Goldmeier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:goldmeier@012.net.il">goldmeier@012.net.il</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
I have been looking for the source to the Minhag Yerushalayim of lighting Shabbos candles<br>
40 minutes before sunset.<br>
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Does anyone know the source why 40 minutes?<br>
</blockquote><div><br>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 <br>
<br>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.<br></div>
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