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    14 Dec CHANUKAH QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

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     Can a person who is invited on Chanukah to a wedding eat at the wedding before they light candles in their house?

    The right thing to do is light candles at the proper time in your house and then go to the wedding. If the wedding starts before one is allowed to light candles, which is plag hamincha, you cannot light the candles. If you light before plag hamincha and then you’re home at the right time, then you can light them at the right time even though you already lit them before. However, you should not say a bracha again. What happens if you are invited to a wedding or a party and you have to leave your home before the plag, but you’re only going to get back late at night? This is the most common question I get. For example: People are going from Brooklyn to Lakewood. If they leave after the proper time to light the Chanukah candles, they’ll arrive too late to the chasuna. If they light before they leave for the wedding, then they will be lighting too early. You can’t light the candles early. If they have a choice, I tell them to light the candles only when they get back. There are two conditions to be met in order to do this right: #1- Appoint someone to remind them that they have to light the candles. #2- When they come back from their party they should be careful to not just light the candles by themselves, rather they should have another person in the room with them.

    Can one use olive oil that does not have a hechsher to light their Chanukah candles, since one does not eat it?

    The Chanukah oil should preferably be kosher. Another thing I would add is that all extra virgin olive oil is kosher, even if it doesn’t have a kosher certification. So if you just buy extra virgin olive oil to light your candles, you don’t have a problem.

    Do bakeries need to be mafrish challah when they make donuts and at what point do they do that? When do you mafrish? When it’s a liquid or a solid?

    One does not need to mafrish with doughnuts because they are not baked; they’re boiled. Anything that is boiled, even if it’s bread, doesn’t need anything taken off.