7yo came in this morning (he would have woken me up to ask this; happily I'm getting plenty of sleep these days and I wake up early most days) to ask:
Do we light the Chanuka candles on Shabbos?
I said no, we light before and we light after.
He said: Then how can it count for the day?
Excellent. He's thinking halachically. If we light before Shabbos, how can it count for that night? Doesn't it need to be after nightfall?
I reassured him that it's ok, we do light beforehand and it still counts.
But now I'm thinking about it. How does that work halachically?
I do find about homeschooling, especially unschooling, that kids aren't mentally worn out from sitting so many hours and their curiosity is not dulled from studying things they are not interested in. People who are in school have a hard time comprehending the urge to think about things when you don't "have" to. I myself, a product of the school system, continue to be shocked by it. But very often, my kids wake me up with "school" questions.
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