So here is some historical facts; obtaining a permit to light a fire in the street even for burning the Chometz was almost impossible in a discussion I had about with the Bostoner Rebbe Harav Pinchas Dovid Horowitz ztl about ten years ago he then said to me, the Chometz was burned in a very small can only the ten small pieces of bread not even the Lulav so it will not be noticeable, he remembered, most Jews would throw the Chometz in large buildings that had an incinerator or simply flush it down in the toilet, some would throw the Chometz into to the lake or ocean just as they did it by Tashlich, so here is a first hand from a Rebbe that was born and lived here in the USA. When I asked him about Lag Bu’Omer Hadloka he had a laugh, it was impossible, he said yearly some Rebbes and Kehelos would place an ad in local newspapers that they will make an Hadloka just as in Miron for the purpose to attract people to the Bais Hamedrash so they can generate some funds, but sadly and as a fact, the Hadloka never materialized. No permit from the police or fire department was granted. Therefore when his grandfather the old Bostoner Rebbe who he was named after, when he came to the USA in 1924 and heard about the problem to obtain a permit decided to make a so-called inside Hadloko lighting it in a little larger glass plate filled with oil for RASHBY and more small plates for other Tanuim for witch grew bigger and larger only in the ’80s and 90′ by his father Harav levi Yitzchok ZTL and his uncle Harav Moshe ZTL , but all Hadlokos maintained indoors and small so no one should get scared and call the fire department,
STOLIN: when I spoke to Rabbi Meir Pilchick Ztl he referred Me to Reb Pinchas Shor an old stolin chossid who will know about the Hadlokos in the USA, on a phone conversation with him, he said one year after the Histalkus of the Stoloner Rebbe Harav Yochanan ZTl they followed the Bostoner Rebbes initiative and started to lighten an inside Hadlokos with music, this went on inside for years for the same reason unable to obtain a permit, during the years in the ’60s some Talmud Thoras took the risk only during the day and made an Hadloko in a safe manner like in the yard so as not to be noticed in the public street, I heard even one got a permit for it as a campfire, and the fire department was present,
Rimanov: in the year 1994 the Rimanover Rebbe Harav Chaim Eluzer wassertheil decided to lite an outside Hadloko on the street where he resides at 1870 53 Street with only a permit from the police it was lit without a permit from the fire department, after 20 minutes the neighbors called the fire department and it was immediately extinguished no fine was given since a police permit was given, on that same year the Lelover Rebbe Harav Alter Biederman ZTL decided to wait until the neighbors ware at sleep and on about 11;00 pm he too lit an Hadloka the fire department arrived and put the fire out too.
More to follow as part #2 ”the first permit from the fire department”
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