Areas of Enlightenment

Q. When staying Shabbos or Yom Tov in a hotel, management usually provides a designated safe area with specially protected tables for lighting the Shabbos or Yom Tov candles. Although that area may be in a well-transited section close to the dining room, is it correct to light there with a brocho or better to use electric lights in the room?

A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a opinion is that when you turn on the electric lights in your hotel room, to be left on during Shabbos or Yom Tov, you should do it right before going for hadlokas neros in the designated areas. Then when you recite the brochos there on the candles, have in mind the electric lights left in the room.

Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit”a