Slings?
A question you may be able to answer or know someone who can answer?
Note the gold brim on only the lit candles.. Hmmm..
> 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.
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
It looks like the candel he was using may have gone out and is re-lighting it from the shamus (Yiddish - helper).
He’s not lighting it, he’s getting light from it.
St. Jerome just transliterated the name as Encaenia.
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.
Bibi says:
“Well—it might not help, but it couldn’t hurt.”
Maybe they were both already lit and this is just a photo op picture.