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December 19, 2017 7:17 pm at 7:17 pm
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ubiquitin – Although what you wrote is “common knowledge” to some, it is not correct and based on a misunderstanding of a braysa in shabbos. The braysa says: “תנו רבנן מצות חנוכה נר איש וביתו”. The word בית there household, as in one’s family. Some mistakenly understand it to mean “house”, as in the physical place in which one dwells. But of course this is a mistake, as is clear from an even casual reading of the Rambam, the mechaber, etc. I understand that some very recent poskim believe otherwise, but this is really a huge chiddush and against the gemera itself and rishonim.