Q. Last year we were travelling during Chanuka and stayed in a hotel on the road one night. We took a Menorah but some of our olive oil spilled. We had B'H a box of candles. In that case is it better to use the oil for some lights of the Menorah and the rest use candles, or should we have used on that night only candles?
A. Be'er Heitev (673: 1) quotes Sh'vus Yaakov (1: 37) who maintains that one should avoid lighting a Menorah partially with oil and partially with candles as it may appear that two different people used that Menorah. See also Nitei Gavriel (18 :21)
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit'a
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