[Avodah] women lighting chanukah candles

[Eli Turkel]

Prof. Levine asks

<<Question:  Given that today most people do not light their menora
outside in the street,  is the reason given by the CS for women not
lighting still valid?  Also, if the husband is lighting outside in
the street and the women are inside,  can he be motzi them?  I recall
that in one shul the rov insisted that men not daven in the ladies
section, because he felt that if they davened there, they were not
counted as part of the minyan.  >>

The candles are lit for the entire family. Thus, according to many poskim
if the husband is working late the wife should light candles at nightfall
even though the husband is miles away or even in another country and even
in another time zone.

RYBS and Rav Lichtenstein both pasken that the wife should light candles in
addition to the husband (according to the Ashkenazi custom) and so Rav
Lichtenstein's wife (RYBS' daughter) lights her own candles

see
http://www.vbm-torah.org/archive/salt-bereishit/10-5miketz.htm

in Hebrew see
http://www.lookstein.org/articles/women_and_chanukah.pdf
http://www.etzion.org.il/vbm/archive/10-halak/06nashim_hanuka.php

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Eli Turkel
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