[Avodah] women lighting candles

[Eli Turkel]

<<Most Jewish women in the liberal denominations (Conservative,
Reform, Reconstructionist), as well as in modern Orthodox communities,
are delighted to light the candles (even though this means more melted
wax to contend with later).>>

melted wax ?? use oil


<<Read her arguments and you will see that in today's day and age,
for women to take upon themselves the lighting of Chanuka lights -- if
they do not already have a family mesorah to do so -- is a symbol of
leftist politics rather than religious devotion, and should be
studiously avoided by Torah-loyal women. >>

The gemara says explicitly women are required in chanukah candles.
Should women stop listening to shofar or sitting in the
succah if it becomes a woman's lib thing? Ra. Aaron Lichtenstein takes
the opposite view and says that since the gemara states explicitly
that women are obligated there has to be a VERY good argument why they
don't ligt and he finds all the arguments presented not
very convincing. Hence the women in his family light candles.
BTW he does not say that was what happened in his father's home.

-- 
Eli Turkel