GAZING AT THE FLAMES

If one will not have the opportunity to kindle his own Chanukah lights or to participate in another's kindling, he may recite the latter two of the three blessings if he merely sees someone else's Chanukah flames (see Shabbos 23a and Orach Chaim 676:3). From this, the Kabbalistic authors have derived that spiritual enrichment is to be derived from the very act of gazing at the Chanukah lights. Many Chassidic masters made it a practice to look at the flames for the full thirty-minute period that they were required to burn.

(Chanukah: Its History, Observance and Significance. Mesorah Publications. Brooklyn, New York)

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