Chanukah: Selling One's Shirt for the Neiros

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Does the Rambam's din of selling one's shirt for Ner Chanukah reach as far as mehadrin min hamehadrin? The Ohr Sameach reads the Rambam that way, and the Mishnah Berurah disagrees. Perhaps chavivus means making as big a deal of a mitzvah as possible, the way the tekios are split in two. Chanukah is also a time of chinuch, a chance to show the family the joy of a mitzvah.

Key points

• Rashi on the doubled tekios: the satan sees Klal Yisrael's love of mitzvos and stays quiet.
• In the Gemara in Megillah, Rav Huna sells his belt to buy wine for kiddush.
• Perhaps the Rambam's word chaviva means mehadrin min hamehadrin, so the shirt is sold for later nights too.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Mehadrin and selling a shirt
2. 0:52Ohr Sameach and Mishnah Berurah on the Rambam
3. 3:00Doubled tekios on Rosh Hashanah
4. 5:57Why the tekios are split
5. 11:05The Magid Mishnah's source in arba kosos
6. 13:18Gemara Megillah stories of kiddush wine
7. 16:32Kiddush on wine as a chumra
8. 19:49Chanukah and chinuch at home

Topics

• Ner Chanukah
• Mehadrin Min HaMehadrin
• Chavivus Mitzvah
• Chinuch