Hadlakat Neirot in 5 Easy Steps (A PBL Activity for Students with Advanced Text Skills)

"If it goes out, [one] is not obligated to [relight] it" -

they threw [a contradictory source] against it:

"Its mitzvah is from when the sun sets until the foot is gone from the marketplace".

Is this not [implying] that if it goes out, [one] is obligated to [relight] it?!

No, [it's implying] that if he didn't light [immediately after sunset], he [still] lights [until "the foot is gone..."];

alternatively, for [indicating]

it's measuring [of duration].

"Until the foot is gone from the marketplace" - and until how [late is that]?

Rabba bar bar Chana said that Rabbi Yochanan said:

Until the foot of the Tarmodian [caste] is gone.

Our Sages taught:

The mitzvah of Chanukkah is a [single] candle for [each] man and his household [ביתו can also translate as wife],

and those who are scrupulous: A candle for each and every one, and the scrupulous among

and the scrupulous among the scrupulous: Beit Shammai says:

The first day he lights eight, from here going [forward], he goes on reducing,

and Beit Hillel says:

The first day he lights one, from here going [forward], he goes on adding.

Ulla said

They argued about it - two Amoraim from the West [i.e., Eretz Yisrael]: Rabbi Yosi ben Avin and Rabbi Yosi ben Zevida. One said:

the reasoning of Beit Shammai is: to correspond to the days which are entering,and the reasoning of Beit Hillel is: to correspond to the days which are going out;

[the other] one said:

the reasoning of Beit Shammai is: to correspond to the bulls [offered on Sukkot] and the reasoning of Beit Hillel is that [we] raise up in holiness and [we] do not lower.

Rabbah bar Bar Chanah said that Rabbi Yochanan said:

There were two elder [scholars] in Tzidon, one did like the words of Beit Shammai, and [the other] one did like the words of Beit Hillel. This [one] gave reason for his words [i.e., actions] - corresponding to the bulls [offered] on Sukkot, and this [other] one gave reason for his words: that [we] raise up in holiness and [we] do not lower.

Our Sages taught:

The Chanukkah candle - it is a mitzvah to place it at the door of his house, on the outside,

and if he was living in an attic [i.e., with no direct access to public areas], he places it in a window adjoining the public area

and in times of danger [i.e., persecution], he places it on his table and it is sufficient for him.

Rava said:

He needs another light [in order] to use its [i.e., the Chanukkah candles'] light

and if there is a hearth-fire, he doesn't need [another light], but if he is a wealthy man, even though there is a hearth-fire, he does need another light.