Reply To: A source for this Chanukah halacha/minhag, please

(I either did not hear or do not remember that tape [FFB].)

Okay, I think I’ve got it. There are two issues here:

1. Where the lights are placed on the menorah.

2. The order the lights are actually prepared in.

(It’s hard to tell which one some people are talking about…)

1. This is what SDD was talking about – lighting begins with the

rightmost lamp, and each night’s new light is added to the left,

but they are lit each night from left to right:

1

12

123

----1234

---12345

--123456

-1234567

12345678

This is not what I meant to ask about.

2. When you actually prepare the lights, do you have to do it

in right-to-left order? Or, on the fourth night, can you prepare

the lamp you will light first, first, second, second, and so on?

(The book has a hand placing the candles into

spots numbers three, two, and one in sequence.)

Sam mentioned ma’avir al hamitzvah – this would only apply

if you were setting up at a time when you can already light, correct?

Sam2:

Are lefties meant to light in a line that follows the direction they’re facing (“away from you” / “reaching across [lit candles]”),

while righties light in a line perpedicular to their gaze (“the one

[…] on your right”)? It’s hard to understand what you wrote.