Q. I’m joining the army as a chaplain. What should I do with lighting candles before Shabbos inside an army camp? The lighted candles can not be left unattended.

A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that it is best if you can light protected candles such as yortzait ones with a brocho in the dinning room, even if after the end of the meal they would be turned off and saved for you by the waiters. If the above can not be done, you may also leave a lit electric lamp in your room and recite a brocho on it.

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