Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

than the nefesh of a tzaddik, and therefore, that the koach of the chet brings about an ahava rabba that did not exist without the koach of that chet.

So there is a certain madrega by Tshuva Me'ava that can only be reached because a person did the aveira.

So that's in chassidus.

It's a difficult concept.

It's one that's hard to get comfortable with.

But that is a concept in Hasidus, that the sin itself becomes a basis for a higher madrigal that had the person never sinned.

Now, it's very important, as Rav Moshe Tzvi Weinberg once pointed out to me, it's very important that whenever we talk of such concepts...

we only do so retrospectively, not prospectively, like, oh, I better sin, because if I want to be the best I can be, I've got to do a lot of Averos.

No, retrospectively, now that I've done Shuvah Me'ava, it turns out that I've reached a certain Madrega.

Okay, question number eight.

If one has a simcha on Shabbos and will sleep in one hotel but eat Shabbos meals in another, where is the proper place to light Shabbos candles and Hanukkah candles?

If candle lighting is permitted in the hotel room only in the sink or alternatively in either hotel lobby, which option is halachically preferable?

You know, Rav Shachter just gave a share about this, about the Makam Adaka, and he points out that the Dinam are the same for Ne'er Shabbos and for Ne'er Hanukkah, you light in your bias.

of a household?

What if you live there for a week?

What if you live there for 30 days?

So that's where it comes up.

So that's where Rav Shach said, I'm just reading the Gemaras.

I'm not saying any Chidushim.

So there is a discussion in the Gemara.