by Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Haber | Sep 17, 2010
Previously titled “The Well Rested Candle” and “My Old Flame” There are five sets of candles that one may have to light for Yom Kippur. 1) The regular Yom Tov candles. These are the candles one lights before the onset of any Shabbos or Chag. The custom is to recite...
by Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Haber | Dec 11, 2009
Coming into Shabbos Chanukah, one must first light the menorah, and then Shabbos candles. The logic is straightforward – once you have accepted Shabbos you can no longer light the Chanukah candles. It would seem sensible that on Motzai Shabbos the order would be...
by Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Haber | Sep 24, 2009
When making Havdalah after Yom Kippur one is obligated to use a light ‘that rested’. This is unique to Yom Kippur, on a regular Saturday night there is no such obligation. What does this mean? And why? A “ner sheshavas”, light that rested, requires that one light...
