Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

That's coming from the candle side.

I don't think it's a problem.

Question number four.

How is it halakhically justified to light Hanukkah candles with a bracha in public places that are not shuls, such as offices, concerts, public events?

Okay, so this is a well-known makhlukah between Chabad and everybody else.

Many, many of the poskim write about this, and they're not at all happy about it.

In Menchas Yitzchak, in Chedek Vav Simen Samache, he writes, The Rishon Menachronim had to work so hard to try to justify the Menach of making a bracha in Shul.

He says that

to have a lighting in Lasifa?

How could Piola Ladas to take this minach any further than it's already been, than it's already gone?

Tzitzal Yezer likewise writes, Of course you don't say a bracha on such things.

How much ink has been spilled about lighting in the Bais HaKnesset?

How could it possibly be that you could say a bracha on such a thing?

And likewise, the Kluysenberger writes, He says,

especially in our generation where people just compare things to one another and take things a step further so

We cannot add anything.

We don't add anything.

All the minhage Yisrael have reasons by the miyastei ha-takana.

And the people that were miyastei this takana are no different.

And therefore...