Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

we don't do this, and he says, that there were Medinos where they would do this, but do we know that the Chacham were okay with it?

Rav Vadya gives a little bit, quotes all the posts, he then quotes the Sefer Mishlas Yaakov,

who's Meikil, because it's an even bigger person than Shul, and he concludes by saying, that they have what to be so much, if it's a large gathering, or,

He says, but it would still be best to Davin Mariv in that location.

I think Rav Soloveitchik was very mocked that it would only be done in the context of tefillah.

It cannot be done before the minyan arrives.

You have to have a minyan, and it has to be after mincha, before mariv, while we're still davening.

And that's why on Motsoy Shabbos, I think he, in shuls, on Motsoy Shabbos of Hanukkah, Adim Rav Salveich was makbet to light a little bit earlier than most shuls are knowing to light, because it had to still be within the context of tefillah.

Once that context of tefillah dissolves, then there's no minhag whatsoever of lighting in the Beis HaKnesset.

So yeah, but Chabad does what Chabad does, and they rely on the idea that it's all for Pirsumi Nisa, we can extend the Pirsumi Nisa of the Beis HaKnesset to any other Pirsumi Nisa.

Okay, question number five.

May one eat crackers or cookies, such as Oreos, on Shabbos, or is there a concern of moheik, of erasing?

So, you know, the idea of cutting cakes with letters on it and these kinds of things, it's really an explicit Ramah.

The Ramah in Simeshin Ram Siv Gimel says you're not allowed to cut apart letters on a cake.

And even though many Akronim try to figure out ways that you could be making the Shemir Shabbos and Chazanish, you know, passing like this Ramah.

And there are ways to be matir, cutting a cake, cutting between the letters, removing the letters together with a thin layer of frosting, cutting the cake before Shabbos, and most critically for our discussion, biting into the letters.

The Mishra Bruin, Shin Memsiv Katnit Zion, says that you're allowed to bite into the letters.

Chaz Nish understands that it's based on the fact that it's a double drabanon.

that it's like a shinoy of how you b'mochech and it's certainly not your intention either.

Chazanish does not view this as enough reason to be meikil, but according to most poskim, a b'sikreshet z'lonichaleh b'treid rabanon is in fact mutter.