#35: The Proper Location for Lighting Shabbat Candles (Part 3)
- Although we mentioned that one should light Shabbat candles close to the location where one eats, an exception to the rule is if one is home for Shabbat but eating away from home on Friday night. In this case, one lights candles in one’s own home, and not at the home of the host (Piskei Teshuvot 263:28). One should, of course, take safety precautions in such cases to ensure that the candles do not pose any sort of fire hazard.
- In such a case, one should make sure to enjoy or benefit from the candles at some point, either before leaving one’s home (it must be close to dark already to benefit), or after they return home by eating something next to the candles (Chut Shani 83:10). Alternatively, many poskim hold that one can turn on the electric lights when lighting with intent that the electric lights be included in the mitzvah, and one can then benefit from them when one returns home (Piskei Teshuvot, ibid.).
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Dedicated by Fran Broder as a zechus for the hostages to be released safely to their families and may everlasting peace come to Eretz Yisrael in the merit of learning Hilchos Shabbos.
