Yankel, I thought we were having a nice Torah discussion. Why do you need to pepper it with nasty insults?
I understand that your question is, supposing that all rishonim poskim rabanim from gemara and onwards were makpid to light only outside and all of them say that manicho al shulhano is NOT A MODIFICATION IN THE WHOLE MITSVA…
You are now saying that Chanukah is different than Sukkah, because with Chanukah it was always accepted to light indoors, so in recent generations, even though the sakana stopped, it’s not an issue to davka light indoors.
But with Sukkah, all rishonim poskim rabanim from gemara and onwards have slept in the Sukkah the entire Sukkos, and suddenly in the 1950s the Rebbe began allowing people to do otherwise.
But, we know that that’s not true (as brought in Shulchan Aruch, and many more places), so your entire idea falls apart.
They modified the takanah, and now the takanah is that you can light in or outdoors. Both are valid ways to do it and none is making a bracha levatala.
Where’d you get this from? It doesn’t say this in Gemara or Shulchan Aruch. In both it clearly states that ner chanukah must be lit outdoors, except in times of danger.
Any posek will tell you the same.
Aha, so now the poskim are infallible? You can’t provide me with any logic that explains that Gemara or Shulchan Aruch permit lighting indoors when it’s not a time of danger, yet because recent poskim allow it, it’s allowed!?
(Earlier poskim may have lit indoors because of the dangers in Europe, etc.).
one can have the benefit of being surrounded by mitzvot on all sides- mezuza, tzitzit and ner. Or other benefits.
So it makes sense to davka violate the halacha in Shulchan Aruch by lighting indoors, losing pirsumei nissa, because then you get mitzvos on all sides (didn’t the Gemara and Shulchan Aruch know about mitzvos on all sides when they permitted it ONLY in times of sakanah!?).
But it’s crazy to say to not sleep in the Sukkah because you don’t want to be mezalzel in the holiness of Sukkah.
Az Nidbiru has many teshuvos where he argues that it’s forbidden to light menorah indoors nowadays. Are you ready to read his seforim, and if you accept his logic, begin attacking all those who “stupidly” follow their “infallible” poskim and light menorah indoors?
Unless you give me reasoning in your own logic, logic that you would even accept from the Lubavitcher Rebbe, why we may DAVKA disregard the Gemara and Shulchan Aruch about lighting the menorah and Shemini Atzeres – I will believe that you have a personal bias against Chabad.
menachem specifically agreed in his post that he would listen to his rebbi even when he does not understand him too.
Whereas the rest klal yisrael , the non habad hasidim, would not.
That is an excellent indication of bias.
Shocker! As a Lubavitcher, I will constantly defend my minhagim and my Rebbe. What a surprise.
Nu, what’s worse? To be biased and always defend your derech, or be biased and always attack someone else’s derech?