[Avodah] Women Lighting menorahs (fwd)

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 01:52:56PM -0600, Steven J Scher wrote:
: 1) R'MK lights a menorah for himself, and a second one for his wife
: (and additional ones for their daughters?)

: 2) The mehadrin approach only means a candle for each MALE member of the
: household.

Lighting a menorah would be the mehadrin min hamehadrin approach.

According to the Ri (Tosafos, Shabbos 21b "Vehamehadrin"), doing MMH means
one menorah per household to the exclusion of one per person. Having one
per person per day wouldn't be as obviously displaying the number of days.

The Rambam (Hil' Channukah 1:1-2) disagrees.

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?)

RJJSchachter wrote about it; the article is on YUTorah.org. He is most
intrigued by the influence each rishon had on the other's eidah!

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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