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Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim 610

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610 ‎[1] **“The kindling of lights (lamps) on Yom Kippur” - Containing four paragraphs.**

In a place where it is customary to kindle a light on the night of Yom Kippur, one does so; in a place where it is not customary to kindle a light, one does not do so. (If there is a lamp in the house one is obligated to kindle a light also in the room where he sleeps so that he does not due to over-stimulation have relations with his wife, since he sees her in the light (i.e., illuminating) of the house, (מהרי״ל), (Marital relations must take place in total darkness). But if it (Yom Kippur) falls on the Sabbath, all are obligated to kindle lights (for the Sabbath).

Hagah*: And one blesses (finishes the blessing over the candles with) “to light the candle of Shabbat and Yom Kippur.” ‎[2] There is one who says that one blesses over the kindling of the light of Yom Kippur.
Hagah*: And this is the custom in these lands. ‎[3] In every place we kindle lights in the synagogues and in the houses of study, in dark alleys and for the sick. ‎[4] It is customary in all places to increase the (number of) lights in the synagogues and to spread nice cloths (i.e., carpets, curtains) in the synagogue.
Hagah*: It is customary to kindle a light for every man whether he is old or young, (a great (important) or a small (unimportant) man), (מרדכי דמהרי״ו), and also a memorial light for his deceased father and mother, (כל בו). And this is proper and thusly wrote some rabbis. If these lights went out on Yom Kippur, one should not say to a Gentile that he should relight them again, (מהרי״ל). One whose light goes out on Yom Kippur should rekindle it after Yom Kippur and he should not extinguish it again, but rather leave it lighted until its completion. And also he should accept upon himself that all (the rest) of his days he should not extinguish his light on Yom Kippur, neither he nor someone else (so it is found in an old collection of customs). There are those who say that (it is proper) to set (cover) nicely the tables on Yom Kippur like (they are covered) on the Sabbath (מרדכי ומנהגים), and so is the custom. There are those who wrote that it is customary to dress in clean, white clothes on Yom Kippur, analogous to the ministering angels, and likewise it is customary to wear a *kittel* which is white and clean, and it is also the clothing of the dead (the shroud), and therefore the heart of a man is humbled and broken, (ד״ע מהגהות מיימוני פ״ז דשביתת עשור).

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Version: Hilkhot Yom ha-Kippurim, trans. by Jan M. Brahms. HUC, 1976

Source: http://library.huc.edu/pdf/theses/Brahms_Jan_M-CN-Rab-1976_rdf.pdf

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