What is the Best Way to Light Candles at a Hotel?

[Music] there's a new customer clro it's a custom that I never learned when I was in yiva but everybody seems to be following that custom and that is you must go to hotel for shabas Kaneka somebody I was speaking about it somewhere and somebody after the lecture I gave said I I need to get home very quickly I said what's the rush he says well I I need to go make reservations based on what you said so I told him you know if you don't follow that custom you'll still be a good Jew and it's and I'm not trying to speak about the hotels but there is a very difficult issue that comes up when you go to hotel for shabas Kaneka and that is obviously in shabas khah you have to light the manira and where are you going to like the manira when you're in a hotel and there's really two parts to this question the first part of the question is Friday evening CU you sleep in your room and you eat in the dining room so in general this question is discussed by many everybody discusses if somebody's in a dormatory in a Yeshiva and they have their bedroom and they have the dining room where's a bed better to light the Mana and it's almost the opinion of all that it's better to light in your bedroom but that's not an option in most hotels they don't want people leaving lit manur in the hotel because of safety issues and of course safety issues always come first so it would probably be quite acceptable to light the manura in the dining room where you're going to be eating the shabas sudo but many hotels don't want those minoras to be in the dining room either there many people in the dining room there children running around in the dining room people walking back and forth waiters serving and they take a different place in the hotel that they designate as the place for lighting the Mana makes it extremely complicated because that really isn't one of the two options that is spoken about when we speak about lighting the manira however if there's no other option there is room to be lenient for lining the manira in a place where everybody's lighting the manira everybody sees the candles the main purpose of the candles is Puma to publicize the miracle and if that's the only option available I guess that's what you have to do but then there's another issue and that is M shab Saturday night so if you're in the hotel and you're remaining there Saturday night you you're going to be there after shabas you're going to light the manora but you're staying there the entire M shabas you're only leaving Sunday then there's no question this is where you are M shabas this is where you're staying and this is where you're going to light the manura but if for whatever reason you're leaving and you're going home or you're going elsewhere and you light you're lighting the manura in the hotel where you wear shabas but then you're going home and you're going to be sleeping at home or you're going elsewhere where you're going to be sleeping what I have to recommend is that you should light the manur in the hotel but when you get home or get to wherever else you're going light the man again don't make a broa but light the Mana again because you maybe really are responsible to light the manora where you stay where you're sleeping not where you just there for shabas especially since that's not your permanent [Music] home