Reply To: Split: Chidushim on Daf Yomi

שבת כב,א

The lighting is the mitzva and not the resting. That is why we make a brocho להדליק and not על הדלקת הנרות. Some say להדליק נר חנוכה. Asks the Har Tzvi how can they light in Jerusalem outside and then close the door? If there is a wind it will blow it out. Maybe we rely on the fact that it did not go out when it was lit, so it wont go out afterwards. We say בימים ההם בזמן הזה we should have said בזמן ההוא? The Ran explains that Nissan is a time of the redemption, so we will be redeemed in Nissan as there is a koach hidden in Nissan which we are reawakening. Similarly, we are reawakening now the neis that this day has experienced before.

The Rivash explains that currently we light inside so we publicize the neis by lighting in the shul with a brocho even though the sefardim don’t make brocho on a custom like Halel.
There is a custom to light in the morning in shul without a brocho. This is based on the Rambam who says that whenever the menorah is cleaned, it is also relit, so in the morning it was prepared for the afternoon and was lit. The Rashba holds that it was only cleaned but not lit. The question is what is the use of lighting it when you can’t really see the light in the sunlight? My answer is that this is a commemoration of the Mikdash and not for publicity and therefore it does not have to be seen.

שבת כב,ב

Tosfas explains that if you have two items on is constant and the other for publicity, if it is question of precedence then the constant comes first whereas if it is question of one or another but not both then publicity comes first. Therefore on Yom Tov we say a Yom Tov shmonei esrei with Shabbos in it and not a Shabbos shmonei esrei with Yom Tov in it.