Q. Can you take a family picture next to a lit menora on Chanuka and then frame it, or would you be benefiting from the neros Chanuka?
When travelling on Chanuka, can you comply with lighting the candles by watching it on real time on your cell phone?
A. Please see question 419 in this forum where the different opinions of Poskim was quoted. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a opinion is that you can take and use a picture of a Chanuka menorah, since after all it is a mitzva to gaze at the candles.
The Rov maintains that you do not comply with the mitzva by watching the lighting of the menora on a cell phone or similar. This is akin to listening to the reading of the megila or the recitation of brochos etc. via telephone, radio or similar, on which most Poskim rule that you are not yotzei. (See also questions 666, 667 and 1212 in this forum.)
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised bt Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a
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