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The Canadian Jewish News, Thursday, December 16, 1982 - Page 3
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RABBI MOSES J. BURAK
Question: Does the lighting of the Chanukah candles on Friday afternoon present some additional problems?
During, the week days, the Chanukah candles are lit after dark, when it is night. On Friday you may not do it that way, for, when the sun sets the Sabbath arrives, and one does not light candles once the Sabbath has arrived. Therefore, one lights the Chanukah candles well before sunset, using candles that will last for at least a half-hour into the night, and then one lights' the Sabbath candles. So it is ruled in the Code,
I O.H. 671:1.
But, some of the authorities feel that we have
II a little problem here. When do you recite the |: mincha service? Before, or after the; lighting of II yourmenorah?:
If you light the Chanukah candles first, your 11 action says that it is already night, since all 11 week long you have been lighting them at i| night. But, if it is night, how does the mincha ij| service fit in, when that service may only be said as long as it is still day?
Therefore, the P'ri Megaddim, in gloss 10 of Aishel Avraha:m on that chapter of the Code, rules that one must recite the mincha prayers first, and then light the Chanukah candles in order to avoid tarte de-sasre — the conflict of two principles.
If you carry out the full implications of this ruling, you will have an early service in the afternoon for mincha, as is done erev Yom Kippur, go home to light the Chanukah candles, and then go back to the synagogue for kabbalas Shabbes. :
But, the. argument of the P'ri Megaddim is not entirely convincing inasmuch as we see that after the Chanukah candles are lit, we light the Sabbiath candles. Now, if the lighting of the Chanukah candles pro>claims that it is night, how can you lijght the Sabbath candles after that proclafnationKls, that not tarte de-sasre?
A more cogent argument is found in the Shaare Teshuva, Code 0. H, Chapter 679:1 where a manuscript responsum by Maharash I?' Abohab, quoted by the $irke Ypsef is cited. It makeis the following points: II: You must recite the mincha service firist and II then, light the Chanukah candles, because (i) ij The prayers take .the place of the Tiemple i; sacrifices, and niincha stands for the tammid iSir sacrifice of the late afternoon; (2) the Chanu-$?: kah menorah and its candles are a reminder of Si: the miracles that occurred when the Temple m menorah was lit with a small jar of oil sufficient Si; .for only one night, and yet it burned for eight ■a. days; (3) The Temple menorah was lit only s: afterthetammidsacrificeofthelate afternoon; sv (4) therefore, as in the Temple, the mincha: SI service comes first, and only then may the iw Chanukah candles and the Sabbath candles be lit.
This subject is discussed at much greater Si length in responsum 136 She'elos u^Teshuvos isTzurYa'akov (secondedition, Tel Aviv). -
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Cargo problems
TEL AVIV IJTA] —
The liquidation of El Al has created problems for the ah-line's cargo service, the only branch operating.
One cargo jet was held up for debt payment at Frankfurt airport early this month and another was delayed at Cairo airport.
Both were released after the Israel government assured El Al creditors that it assumes full responsibility for payment due.
The aircraft, JKhich landed acaj-go of agricultural produce at Frankfurt, was detained by the authorities against some $240,000 owed by El Al to the airporX^
Local officials said the plane would not usually
be held for such a rela- : tively small debt, except for the uncertainty of EI Al's future.
Similarly, JTA reports, an El Al cargo plane which brought cows from Amsterdam to Cairo was unable to take off from there because the European company, that supplies its fuel demanded immediate payment in cash.
The transport ministry in Jerusalem contacted the European head office of the fuel supplier to guarantee payment.
According to JTA, ministry officials said they are trying to make suitable arrangements at -Amsterdam and New York to avoid delays when El Al planes land there.
U.S. proposes face'Saving plan
Trooj) withdrawal talks stalled
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at army headquarters, said Israel Has two contingency plans. One envisages a pollout within six months, while a second is based on the 1983 schedule.]
George Shultz, the U.S. secretary of state, has said that he hopes to work out a withdrawal strategy by Jan. 19 — the date on which the UN Security Council is sup- -posed to extend the life ofthe moribund UNIFIL force in southern Lebanon.
But he may be excessively optimistic, as he . had been earlier in expressing the belief that
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since they (the Arabs) had promised not to hand out political material. If you looked closely enough, you could see the insignia of the FLO and their flag displayed," Chernack said.
There was an outcry in the Arab community after building commissioner Emslie made his remarks about "folding their tents" and he was accused, of being racist. But Emslie .shrugged this off.
The offending pages in the booklet said that "the Israelis; having no national art of their own, tried to claim possessipn of the Palestinian culture and art* or to efface it altogether."
Throughout the booklet, and in the entire display of art, woodworking and clothing items, Israel was referred to as Palestine. A map of Israel was boldly labeled "Palestine." The United Nations creation of Israel in 1948 was referred to as a. "disaster."
The booklet states that "the culture of the Hebrews was almost en-, tirely derived from their Canaanite precursors... from them they borrowed all their ideas of religiou^s: -art and architecture ; . . 'chey copied Canaanite costumes and crafts ; . . and every aspect of life, adding little of value, even in improvements." (This paragraph was not torn out.)
The second floor area in city hall is often used by various ethnic groups ■ for cultural displays. Emslie points out that there was a Jewish display there two years ago.
"These people (The Arab Palestine Organization) came to me and asked to display an exhibit of Palestinian culture and art, which I agreed'to," said Emslie. "I felt that the page in the booklet was not an" appropriate document to be handing out at a cultural display." ;
the Israelis, Syrians and the PLO could be persuaded to leave by the end of 1982.
Like Shultz, the Lebanese foreign minister, Elie Salem, is outwardly hopeful. During a brief visit to Britain last week, he said there is no reason for Israel, Syria or the PLO to remain in Lebanon anbther day.
At the behest of President Amin Gemayel, Salem sought to enlist British support for his plan to increase the strength of an international peacekeeping force presently in place in Lebanon. It consists of French, Italian and U.S. soldiers, but iOemayel wants other nations, including Britain, to join.
The British are still considering Lebanon's request.
,In Lebanon, there were few signs that the central government could extend its authority throughout the country. : . ■ V '
• Bands of rival Moslem gunmen fought battles in the northern city of Tripoli, which is in Syria's zone Of influence, and Druze and Christians exchanged fire in the Shouf mountains, which are controlled by Israel.
• Near Beirut, the Israeli and Lebanese armies clashed for the first time since Israel's invasion on June 6. Two Lebanese soldiers were killed and one Israeli was
Menachem Begin
wounded in what both sides said was ah isolated and accidental incident.
Accidental or not, the clash was indicative of the tensions which continue to wrack Lebanon — a nation whose for-
tunes have gone from bad to worse.
While politicians debated troop withdrawals, Prime Minister Menachem Begin, in a letter to the judicial commission investigating the Sept. 16; 18 Beirut massacre, said "there were no grounds to assume that atrocities" against Palestinian civi 1 ians would be committed by Christian militiamen...
Begin's remark did not tally with one he made on Sept. 19 to Chief of Staff Gen. Rafael Eitan. Speaking of the assassination of president-elect Bashir Gemayel, Begin said he presumed that his followers would"take revenge on the Moslems."
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