Q. Kevod Horav Shlit’a. Can someone who usually lights Neiros Shabbos and Yom Tov using oil, light during Pesach with Kitniyos Oil?
A. Mishna Berura (453: 10) rules that in principle it is permitted since the Kitniyos prohibition applies only in eating them, and not to deriving benefit from them which is allowed.
However, he adds that it is apparent that people are usually stringent in using such oil for candle lighting, since the Kitniyos grain could actually contain some chometz grains mixed into it.
Yet Poskim permit, when the oil used has a proper Hechsher and is used for Sephardim that permit Kitniyos.
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that it is permitted, yet it is preferred to keep the oil container with those lights, properly separated from the food. (See also Piskei Teshivos ibid 7).
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised By Horav Dovid Pam Shlit’a,Horav Aharon Miller Shlit’a and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit'a
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