[Avodah] women lighting candles

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Wed Dec 24 09:22:37 PST 2008


menucha wrote:
> Sorry, I don't happen to have a "women's Shulchan Aruch", but I did find 
> some of these halachot in the "men's".
> if you miss a candle you have to light for the rest of your life - Rema  
> OC 263,1
> Shabbat comes in when you light candles Mishna Brura sham 50
> Not to touch a sefer Torah when nidda- Rema  OC 88.1
> 
> these may be topics over which there are other opinions but it's pretty 
> sad if men have never heard of them.....

Obvious men have heard of them, or I'd not have been able to write about
them.  But they're all recorded as the minhag of women, i.e. it was the
women who decided to do these things, not the men who told them to.


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Zev Sero                                Have a brilliant Chanukah
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