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Chayei Adam - K’lal 145 - Laws of Yom Kippur

Kippur] is on Shabbos, it appears to me that after he finishes the beracha of
ha’mavdil bein kodesh l’chos, he should say a beracha on the besamim, but not in
the middle of it.

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]40[ We say a beracha on a candle even if [Yom Kippur is] on a weekday. The
reason for this beracha is not like every motzei Shabbos which we say the beracha
because fire was created on motzei Shabbos, which is why one may say the
beracha even on fire which was just made from rocks, etc. However, the beracha
said on fire on [motzei] Yom Kippur is because it was forbidden to use it the entire
day. Therefore, one may only say the beracha on a candle which was burning
from before Yom Kippur, or one which was lit by a non-Jew on Yom Kippur for a
woman after childbirth or an ill person because that fire had rested from
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prohibited melacha. Some say that one may not say the beracha on the candles
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from the shul. It appears to me that the same is true of any candles lit at home
in honor of the day. Since it was lit primarily for the honor of the day, and not for
illumination, the custom is to light one candle off of that one and make havdala

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disagree and explain that on motzei Shabbos ordinary Shabbos, some amoraim would only
one should make a beracha; since it is recite the beracha on besamim later, when
Shabbos, there is a neshama they had the opportunity to.
yeseira. Accordingly, since he benefits from
the scent anyway (and there is therefore no 88. Every motzei Shabbos we recite “borei
concern that the beracha is in vain), many me’orei ha’eish” on a candle, since it was only
after Shabbos that Adam ha’Rishon learned
poskim rule to include besamim in havdala how to produce fire. For this reason, the
(Bach, Magen Avraham, Mishna Berura). The beracha must be recited on a new fire which
Taz however notes that according to those was lit for illumination. (See Chayei Adam K’lal
who say to omit it, the beracha on besamim 8 and Shulchan Aruch O.C. 298:.) The havdala
should be considered a hefsek in the middle of candle of motzei Yom Kippur however, was
havdala. Based on this, the Chayei Adam instituted to demonstrate the sanctity of the
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suggests postponing the beracha on besamim day in that, unlike other yomim tovim, use of
until after havdala (i.e. after he sips from the fire is forbidden. As such, Chazal mandated
wine), probably because the Talmud that the beracha be recited on a ner
Yerushalmi (Berachos) relates that even on an sheh’shavas, meaning a candle which ‘rested’

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