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Melacha after candle lighting - for women
Question
Can I take a shower or prepare a meal in the half an hour after Channuka candle lighting?
Answer
If a woman sews, weaves, does the laundry or any thing that has Tircha, effort it is a Melacha and forbidden. If she's just boiling hot water for a tea or brushes her teeth it is permitted. A forbidden Melacha on Channuka is not like the forbidden Melachot on Shabbat.
Rabbi Dov Lior

Hallel on Chanuka
Rabbi David Sperling | Kislev 26, 5776

Strange Menorah
Rabbi Elchanan Lewis | 17 Tammuz 5766

Channukah Haftorah
Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Kislev 10, 5769

Chanukah - Wrong Number of Candles
Various Rabbis | 13 Tevet 5764

Various Rabbis
Various Rabbis including those of of Yeshivat Bet El, such as Rabbi Chaim Katz, Rabbi Binyamin Bamberger and Rabbi Yitzchak Greenblat and others.

A Convert Who Does Not Keep Shabbat
23 Cheshvan 5763

REDEMPTION, Why - What did I do!?
4 Cheshvan 5763

Becoming a Ger
1 Kislev 5763

I love pork
23 Cheshvan 5763

Fasting on Tisha B’Av
Rabbi David Sperling | Tammuz 8, 5773

Bracha at cemetery
Various Rabbis | 7 Nisan 5766

Leather on Tisha B’Av and Yom Kippur
Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Av 4, 5768

Traveling on a Fast Day
Rabbi Elchanan Lewis | 24 Kislev 5765

A Middle Name that Won’t be/Isn’t Used
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Av 11, 5782

Early Shabbat Candle Lighting
Rabbi Yoel Lieberman | Av 6, 5782

Amusement Park on Shabbat
Rabbi Yoel Lieberman | Av 5, 5782
