- Ideally, candles should be lit at tzeit ha-kochavim (when three stars appear)
- Candles must burn for 30 minutes from the time they are lit.
- On Shabbat, we light the menorah slightly earlier, before sundown, to circumvent the prohibition of hav'arah (kindling a flame).
Based on these rules, students responded to scenarios like the following:
If tzeit ha-kochavim is at 6:00 PM, until what time would the candles have to burn? (6:30 PM)
If the candles burned until 6:45 PM, what time must you have lit the menorah? (6:15 PM)
It's erev shabbat. If sundown is at 5:45 PM and tzeit ha-kochavim is at 6:20 PM, until what time must the candles burn? (6:50 PM, for 1 hour 5 minutes).
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