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Volume 42: Number 4

Tue, 16 Jan 2024

• 1. Re: Shabbat Candle Burnout (Akiva Miller)
• 2. Should we have returned after 3 days? (Akiva Miller)

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R' Joel Rich wrote:

> somebody mentioned the practice of relighting shabbat
> candles after shabbat that had burnt out by themselves
> on Shabbat. I hadn?t heard of this practice and neither
> had most of the participants.

Like most people (I presume), I too feel bad when my Shabbos candles go out
on their own. It never occurred to me that there might be a practice - as
you cited - of relighting them after Shabbos.

But given your interest in where this practice came from, I'll share the
first thought that came to my mind when you introduced the question:
Perhaps it is a carryover from Chanuka candles? By Chanuka, we are told
quite explicitly that "Hadlaka Oseh Mitzva", and that therefore, as long as
the lighting was done properly, "Kavsa Ain Zakuk Lah", if it goes out there
is NOT any need to relight it -- yet there is a practice to relight them
anyway.

Perhaps for some reason or other (I can speculate on the reasons, but won't
bother right now) the practice of "relighting anyway" got carried over from
Chanuka to Shabbos (the big and obvious difference being that on Chanuka we
can usually relight immediately, but on Shabbos we have to wait until
Motzaei Shabbos).

Akiva Miller
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Sometimes people ask whether we were wrong for not returning to Mitzrayim
after three days, given that Moshe Rabeinu never asked Paro for more than
that.

Many answers have been given (none of which come to mind at the moment, I'm
sorry to say), but I just saw two answers, both in the peirushim on Shemos
11:1. In that pasuk, Hashem tells Moshe what will happen after the next
plague, number ten:

?????????? ???????? ??????? ?????????????? ??????? ???????? ?????????
???????? ???????

"He will send you out - a complete sending - he will totally drive you out
from here."

Netziv remarks on the word ??? that "You shouldn't think that this is
another 3-day sending. Rather, it will be a complete exit to freedom."

Malbim (at the very end) explains that one of the differences between ???
and ??? is that ??? means "never to return".

Either way, even if later portions don't tell us exactly what Paro's
intentions were, we are now being told in advance, exactly what those
intentions will be.

Akiva Miller
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