Candle lighting in a yeshivah for a Sephardi

I’m a yeshivah student of Sephardic origin. I live in a dormitory and visit back home about once a month. G-d willing, in the beginning of Chanukkah I’ll be in my yeshivah. Afterwards, I’m supposed to go back home. I’ll be home starting Thursday, and till the next Sunday. Do I have to light Chanukkah candles, and if so, where do I have to light and do I have to recite a blessing?    

A Sephardi young man who learns in a Yeshivah and visits back home once every few weeks, on those days that he’s in the Yeshivah, should light Chanukkah candles in the Yeshivah. There is a doubt whether he’s obligated to recite a blessing in this case, so he should not recite one. If this is possible, he should try to hear the blessing from someone else (and answer “amen”), or to hear the blessing that is recited in the synagogue after candle lighting. He can also arrange with his father that he light the candles before his father does.

There are many Sephardim who don’t light at all. In this case, it would be proper for him to pay a small amount to an Ashkenazi friend who lights in the Yeshivah to share his oil and candles expenses.

On the days that he’s at home, he doesn’t have to light, since his father lights for the whole household. He does not have to pay his father to participate in his expenses. 

Shulchan Oruch, section Orach Chaim, chapter 677, §1; Mishnah Berurah and Biur Halachah, ibid.; Azamrah LiShmechah newsletter, #118