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Where to light the Chanukah menorah

Question

Shalom. I live near my parents, in a high-floor apartment without windows facing the public domain. I sleep in this apartment, and I often eat at my parents’ home, where there is a window facing the public domain. May I light the Chanukah menorah there? Or should I light where I sleep, in my own home? Or in both places? And where should it be with a beracha and where without a beracha?

Answer

Shalom and blessings. 

The place where you should light is in your own home. 

If you have a window facing the neighbors, light there. 

And if you do not have a window visible to the neighbors, light inside the house by the entrance, opposite the mezuzah. 

Answered 8 December 2025 How answers are reviewed
Rabbi Israel Cohen
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