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asked 5 years ago

Shalom Rabbi Michi
A person who wants to light one candle on Hanukkah because he doesn’t have the patience to light all the candles, do you think this is halachically problematic?
My question comes from two questions:
a) From the perspective of Jewish custom, as a mehadrin from the mehadrin
b) And most importantly – on the one hand, it shows that he is disrespecting the commandments by not investing in something so simple to perform.
I would love to hear what you think.

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מיכי Staff answered 5 years ago

A. From the point of view of custom, it is not clear to me whether there is a problem. The Sages defined this as a Hadrin from the Mehadrin, and therefore it is possible that it does not have the validity of custom. By the very definition, the Sages say that everyone can choose what level of Hidur to perform. I did explain once that Hidur here is from the law. In memory of the Hidur that was performed then (which was lit with pure oil), it was fixed for generations to Hidur. But they could not establish this as an obligation because at that time there was no Hidur here but rather the essence of the law. Therefore, they left it as Hidur, but the expectation is that everyone will Hidur. According to this, there is actually a kind of obligation to Hidur. B. It is clear that if he does this just because he has no patience, he is being disrespectful. What is the question?

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יאיר replied 5 years ago

Regarding B. The question arises from the fact that he fulfills the mitzvah that the Sages finally corrected. Can we call someone who does not fulfill the most important of the mitzvahs a disrespectful of the mitzvah and then, for the sake of illustration, deduct a higher score for this?

יאיר replied 5 years ago

PS Did you post the innovation regarding the Mahadirin regulation on Chanukah in writing? I would be happy to refer to it.

מיכי Staff replied 5 years ago

What is the connection? He fulfills the mitzvah but not the hidrot. And if he does not hidrot because of laziness, he is disrespectful.
Incidentally, I once wrote that the law of hidrot is not a permission but an obligation, which is learned from the verse “This is to me and to annavhu”. And what many mistakenly think is voluntary and not obligatory is because hidrot does not delay the mitzvah. But this is a mistake. It does not delay the mitzvah itself, but there is the mitzvah of hidrot that has not been fulfilled.
And this is similar to the mistake of many that the blue on the tzitzit is voluntary hidrot and not obligatory. But this is of course a mistake. The blue does not delay the white, but it is clear that there is also a mitzvah of hidrot that has not been fulfilled.

מיכי Staff replied 5 years ago

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יאיר replied 5 years ago

Thank you for the wonderful and renewed things.

התכלת ו'הצו הקטגורי' replied 5 years ago

On the 2nd of Tevet

Regarding Tekhelet in our day, I presented the explanation that in our current situation, if every observant Jew ordered Tekhelet threads, all the snails would be extinct in a short time.

Ostensibly, the rigor in observing the Tekhelet commandment is built on the fact that not everyone is rigor in it, and only because there are few rigors and rigor in it does not become a ’categorical command’ – only in the minority can it exist, and so on.

With regards, Yaron Fishel Ordner