Halacha:

Chanukah 

Collections: The Brachot of Chanuka Lighting

Description

After Daddy lights, everyone else lights as well, and makes their own bracha. How does that work? May one recite a bracha on a hiddur mitzvah? Do the family members fulfill their mitzvah with the father, and then just add to it, or are they specifically passing up that opportunity so that they can each fulfill the main mitzvah individually?Vilna Gaon, R' Akiva Eiger versus Rama and Pri Chadash. Where do these two opinions come from? Discovering earlier roots of these two divergent approaches, Maharil and Terumas HaDeshen. Fascinating chiddush of Brisker Rav to explain Rambam versus Rama about hiddur in bris milah and Chanukah candles.