Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz
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They were able to pick out the wheat from the Peseldas, utilizing the light of the Simchas Beis HaShoeva.
And the Yerushalmi seems to assume, tells his quotes, that that was mutter to do.
Not just that they were able to do it.
That's another possibility, that they were able to, but they didn't do it, because you're not allowed to get hana'a.
from Hegdish, and these lights were fueled by Hegdish.
But the Yerushalmi assumes, no, no, it was mutter for them to actually do that.
And it was actually mutter to enjoy the lights of the Simchas Beis HaShueva, which would seem to be an indicator that it is mutter.
There are other couple of indicators that looking at something that's asr ba'ana is not a violation of hana'a.
In the Tshuvos Machna Chaim, in Yerudei HaChel Beis, in Samach,
He quotes from the Gemara, where the Gemara describes how they would show the great miracles, how beloved the Jewish people are to HaKadosh Baruch Hu by picking up the shulchan and showing them, picking up the lechem hapanim and showing that a week later it was still fresh, which is miraculous that the lechem hapanim would still be fresh.
You leave challah out until the end of the meal sometimes.
This wasn't even challah, it was matzah, and it was thick matzah.
It should have been like a brick, but it was still fresh.
A week later, what a tremendous, tremendous miracle.
Well, how could they show that to people?
People are looking at that, you know, I'll let you get handa'ah.
from looking and from enjoying a sight of HaGadish.