{"id":46672,"date":"2018-12-05T14:37:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T14:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/?p=46672"},"modified":"2020-09-08T15:51:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T15:51:28","slug":"hekeira-ner-chanukah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/hekeira-ner-chanukah\/","title":{"rendered":"Ner Chanukah and Hekeira"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a society where candles were used for light (before electricity), how did one ensure that the candles used for Ner Chanukah are recognizable as being for a mitzvah\u00a0 &#8211; especially given the fact that pirsumei nisa is a critical element of the mitzvah?<\/p>\n<p>If a person lives alone would they not be required to light? The poskim say yes! There is a concept of publicizing the miracle to oneself.<\/p>\n<p>Rav Betzalel Zolty on the difference between mehadrin\/hiddur mitzvah vis-a-vis Ner Chanukah versus other mitzvot and the concept of publicizing the miracle to oneself.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Delivered at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ouisrael.org\/?sessionGUID=90097215-1e58-d848-d78c-08d9c6652775&amp;spMailingID=20817808&amp;spUserID=MjM4MTI2NDM3MDAS1&amp;spJobID=1244509484&amp;spReportId=MTI0NDUwOTQ4NAS2&amp;webSyncID=c275b67a-8211-3b57-a656-d0b1b8076403&amp;sessionGUID=b1a9192d-3041-6861-142d-11b15c87a590\">OU Israel Center<\/a>, December 5th, 2018 (27 Kislev 5779)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a society where candles were used for light (before electricity), how did one ensure that the candles used for Ner Chanukah are recognizable as being for a mitzvah\u00a0 &#8211; especially given the fact that pirsumei nisa is a critical element of the mitzvah? If a person lives alone would they not be required to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":46673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[344],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chanukah","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ner Chanukah and Hekeira by Rav Azarya Berzon - Jewish Holidays<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When candles were used for light how did one ensure Ner Chanukah was recognizable as a mitzvah? Pirsumei nisa applies even to oneself. 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