Commentary for Pesachim 201:7

איני והאמר אביי כל מילי דמר הוה עביד כרב לבר מהני תלת דעביד כשמואל מתירין מבגד לבגד ומדליקין מנר לנר

and he recited kiddush, he would say to us: 'Eat a little [here], lest by the time you reach your lodgings your lamps become upset, and you do not recite kiddush in the house where you eat, while you will not have discharged [your duty] with the kiddush of this place, because kiddush is [valid] only where the meal is eaten. But that is not so, for surely Abaye said: In all matters the Master [sc. Rabbah] acted in accordance with Rab, except these three, where he did as Samuel: [viz. ,] one may light from lamp to lamp;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' One may kindle one Hanukkah lamp from another.');">⁶</span>

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