[Avodah] further on Temimos

[Prof. Levine]

At 02:52 PM 6/4/2009, Shlomo Pick wrote:

>Your question is excellent, and prima facie, it 
>would appear that a woman should not light 
>earlier on erev shavu’ot according to the 
>Natziv.  And yet what about kavod yom tov 
>mentioned in my last posting?  It could very be 
>that the natziv will not work out with this 
>rambam and the posekim who say women should 
>light earlier, for they may have other reasons 
>for making arvit later, like temeemos (see below 
>on that). Nevertheless, I would offer the 
>following solution – she should to light with a 
>bracha early for the kiyyum kavod yom tov, but 
>make a tenai (stipulation) that she is not 
>accepting yom tov yet. That would satisfy both requirements.

I may be on shaky ground here, but it seems to me 
that according to the Netziv a women would not be 
able to light with such a stipulation. Would it 
not be a bracha l'vatalah?  After all, according 
to him, since one cannot make early Yom Tov,  it 
is similar to a woman lighting before plag, is it not?

YL
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