Hanukkah Question (vanity)

Former Fetus

[Former Fetus]

The following picture has been posted by the office of PM Netanyahu in his Facebook page. My question is: why is he lighting the shamash after the first Hanukkah candle is already lighted? I am not criticizing, I am a Christian who is trying to learn.

[Darksheare]

Slings?
A question you may be able to answer or know someone who can answer?

[Slings and Arrows]

IMO, he goofed. (If I’m wrong, my apologies to PM Netanyahu.)

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Note the gold brim on only the lit candles.. Hmmm..

[Mr170IQ]

> why is he lighting the shamash after the first Hanukkah candle is already lighted?

I see a couple of possibilities.

1) He goofed.

2) The oil shamash went out while he was lighting the first oil lamp with the candle, and he went back to relight it.

[Mr170IQ]

Hmm - now that I look at it more closely, it appears to be wax candles and not oil lamps.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Usually the way we do it in our house is we take the match, light the Shamash first, then light the rest of the candles. Maybe in Israel they do it differently but its possible that Bibi goofed

[SkyDancer]

It looks like the candel he was using may have gone out and is re-lighting it from the shamus (Yiddish - helper).

[SkyDancer]

It looks like the candle he was using may have gone out and is re-lighting it from the shamus (Yiddish - helper).

[kabumpo]

He’s not lighting it, he’s getting light from it.

[Verginius Rufus]

By the way, there is a mention of Hanukkah in the New Testament, at John 10.22, where it is called ta enkainia, the renovation, because it celebrates the rededication of the temple. The verse goes on to note that "it was winter."

St. Jerome just transliterated the name as Encaenia.

[MestaMachine]

After the blessings are said the shamash is lit and the first Hanukkah candle (the one you placed in the rightmost position of your menorah) is kindled using the flame from the shamash. Place the shamash in its place on your menorah. (Usually there will be a special spot for it in the middle of your menorah.)
You allow the shamash candle to burn. If this is what I think it is, what he is doing is what I do. I hold the shamash over the holder to drip hot was into the cup so the candle stands up straight and does not loosen and fall over.
In fact, with my menorah, I do it with every candle.

[MestaMachine]

wax

[tommix2]

I think we are not looking carefully enough at the picture.

[Former Fetus]

the candle he was using may have gone out and is re-lighting it from the shamus
He’s not lighting it, he’s getting light from it

Good suggestion! The Chanukiah uses either oil lamps or small wax ones. Either one, he's using a candle to get light from the shamas and then lighting others. The question is, what is he lighting? The pic was posted a couple of hours ago, it could be night fall in Israel but it would be the FIRST night of Hanukkah.

hold the shamash over the holder to drip hot was into the cup so the candle stands up straight and does not loosen and fall over.

Bingo, I think you got it!

its possible that Bibi goofed

To all, thanks. Y'all told me that after all, I had understood how to light the Chanukiah. Thanks!

[Tula Git]

"He’s not lighting it, he’s getting light from it."

He's getting ready to light the second candle?

[Former Fetus]

On Dec. 8? I don’t know the time difference with Israel, but it is not 24 hrs!

[Former Fetus]

[EinNYC]

That is NOT a gold rim. It is olive oil, the preferred method of lighting Chanukah candles. They only filled up the candles they intended to light with olive oil, hence the "gold rim" only on the candles they're using.

Of course, you can light the multi-colored wax candles everyone has seen, but lighting olive oil is preferred for fulfilling the mitzvah of lighting.

[varina davis]

Bibi doesn’t goof