Reply To: Chanuka II

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I am curious as to whether the Rov lit inside or outside. If he lit inside then perhaps pshat is as follows. Some want to say that once people started lighting inside the takana of lighting outside was ?????. A possible ??? to this is that many poskim throughout the ages seem to have lit inside even not ???? ?????. However, a glance at Rabbeinu Perachia (in the kovetz on Shabbos) shows that R’ Hai Gaon said that rain and wind are also considered like ??? ?????, since the ?? will almost definitely be extinguished if lit outside. You can find this halacha in the Ritva (chadashim) as well. Therefore, perhaps the Brisker Rov, who was lighting in a safe neighborhood, wanted to show that the reason he was lighting inside was not because the original takanah was ?????, but because wind and rain are also considered like ??? ?????. Therefore he demonstrated this by taking his umbrella with him. And if he lit outside, I don’t think I would have a pshat other than to say he must have been worried it was going to rain.