Hanukkah Candles When Not at Home and Returning at Night

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Question

We need to have the Shabbat meal near the father who is hospitalized in intensive care and then return to sleep at home. Where and how should we light the Hanukkah candles?

Answer

If you leave after Plag Hamincha but early, you cannot light candles unless one of you accepts Shabbat. Therefore, appoint an emissary to light and provide oil so it burns until you return home. If there is no emissary, light in the hospital, but since it is near the father's bed in the ward, there is no permission to light there, and in the corridor of the ward, you have no use, and you also cannot light. You can light the night lamp next to the bed where you eat and bless its lighting.

Source

Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim, Siman 263

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