[Avodah] women lighting candles
menucha
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Wed Dec 24 10:27:28 PST 2008
I don't see them recorded as the minhag of women:
miss a candle - Rema in the name of Mahari"l
take in Shabbat- MB says Yesh Omrim - unless Yud aleph here means Yesh
Omrot?
Nida touching Sefer Torah - seems to be the opposite, that only matir
because of Nachat ruach for women (see beur haGRA
menucha
Zev Sero wrote:
> 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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