[Avodah] candle lighting
Eli Turkel
eliturkel at gmail.com
Fri Dec 14 06:00:48 PST 2007
<<The BY (OCh 671) quotes the Ri, and is usually taken as holding like him.
Sepharadim follow this position -- and Ashkenazim generally follow the
Rambam. (With a possible exception of the Katzes?)>>
I thought it was conceded that Ashkenazim do not follow the Rambam.
According to Rambam only the head of the household lights but the number is
equal to the number of people multiplied by the number of days
According to Ramah each individual lights
BTW RYBS had his wife and daughters light which seems to make the most sense.
Ishto ke-gufo seems a stretch. Why should daughters be different than sons
The Brisker Rav ties some of this to the question whether the chiyuv is on
the household or on the individual (see also shiur of R Asher Weiss)
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Eli Turkel
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