Q. I will be traveling overseas on vacation G-d willing during Chanuka with my family and I have a few questions…
Can we appoint a shaliach back home to light for us? How about the time difference?
A. In regards to naming an agent or shaliach to light for him in his house, many Poskim regard this as a the best option (Shevet Halevy 8: 158) Rivavos Ephraim (O.H. 267: 3) debates whether he would recite sheheheyanu latter on, when he arrives home.
Horav Shlomo Miller's opinion is that he should indeed appoint a shaliach to light for him and give him access to his home, but he should also, as above light himself without a brocho, using a battery powered incandescent light that will last for at least a half an hour.
In regards to the time of hadlaka, some Poskim maintain that the lighting of the shaliach should correspond to the actual real time of the person he is lighting for (see Moriah Year 26, 11-12, p. 73). However, Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that it is of no concern.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit"a.
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