Q. Can a patient that can’t light a fire on his Menorah by hospital rules, and has not anyone else to light for him outside the hospital use an electric battery menorah?

​Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that he may likely be able to contact a Rabbi or friend he knows or even the chaplain of the hospital and ask them to light for him.

However, if that is not an option he can light an electric battery menorah without a Brocho.

Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a