Related%20passage for Shabbat 44:8

תא שמע דאמר רבי יהושע בן לוי

one may not light from lamp to lamp.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For the lit lamp or branch is already sanctified, as it were, whilst no complete religious observance is fulfilled by the act of lighting the next, on the present hypothesis. ');">¹⁴</span> For the scholars propounded: Does the kindling or the placing constitute the precept? — Come and hear: For Raba said, If one was holding the Hanukkah lamp and thus standing, he does nothing:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He does not fulfil the precept. ');">¹⁵</span> this proves that the placing constitutes the precept! — [No:] There a spectator may think that he is holding it for his own purposes.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Whereas the essence of the Hanukkah lamp is to advertise the miracle. ');">¹⁶</span> Come and hear: For Raba said: if one lights it within and then takes it outside, he does nothing. Now, it is well if you say that the kindling constitutes the precept; [for this reason] we require the kindling to be [done] in its proper place,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. outside; supra 21b. ');">¹⁷</span> [and] therefore he does nothing. But if you say that the placing constitutes the precept, why has he done nothing? — There too an observer may think that he lit it for his own purposes. Come and hear: For R. Joshua b. Levi said,

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