Chanukah: Kavsa Zakuk La

There is a fundamental halachic concept by Neros Chanukah known as "Kavsa Eino Zakuk La", meaning: if the candles go out, you are not required to relight. Since the actual lighting is the mitzvah and provided at the time of the lighting all requirements were fulfilled, if the candles do go out, one need not relight. This halacha is very practical to almost everyone. Common examples are if someone walks by and your candles go out, or if while someone else is lighting they accidentally cause your candles to go out. Again this exemption from relighting is only if at the time you lit all requirements were met: the menorah was where it is suppose to be, there was enough oil to last, etc. However, if you light in a place were it is reasonable to expect it to go out you are required to relight. For example, if you light the menorah with your front windows open, even if you were to close them right after, since at the time you lit the requirements were not met, you are required to relight with a beracha because you first lighting was invalid. The Maharal of Prague (late 1500's) asked an amazing question based on this concept. In Israel everyone lights outside. But isn't it windy? So people buy a glass box with a front door and place their menorahs inside. They open the door, light the menorah and quickly shut the door to prevent the wind from blowing out the candles. Asked the Maharal, no one in Israel is fulfilling the mitzvah. This case is exactly the same as the window case. When you lit the wind could enter, and if you leave the door/window open for sure it will blow out. So what should it matter if you close the door, at the time of the lighting the requirement weren't met??? However, Rav Moshe Shternbach in his Sefer Moadim U'Zmanim answers that the two cases are not parallel. He explains, what is the basis for this halacha that if you light in a windy place you aren't yotzei. It must be the Rabbis were worried you would forget to fix the problem and it would blow out. So, in a case were it is plausible you will forget (our windows being open) it makes sense you aren't yotzei, because there is no need for you to close- in fact, if you were so worried, why didn't you close the windows before you lit. However, by the glasses boxes in Israel, everyone would love to keep it closed at all times- but then you couldn't light. Since the whole functioning of the box is to close the door, and people only open because they need to light, the Rabbis never decreed this wasn't good- because in this scenario people won't forget. Last weeks A- This question was for the real history buffs. In 1948 the first day of Chanukah fell on Sunday December 26th. Thus Shabbos Chanukah was January 1st 1949. Hence the Calendar Year 1948 had no Shabbos Chanukah. Thank you to S120 for that brain buster. These weeks Q- We all know the miracle of Chanukah lasted for eight days because that's how long it took to get kosher oil. (Four days each way). But since at least one of those days must've been Shabbos, and you are not allowed to travel, how did the trip only take eight days? TheHalachaBoy@gmail.com