[Avodah] Women Lighting Menorahs

[Micha Berger]

Take 2. A side effect of moderating is losing track of where the
conversation was up to at the time of the post in question vs. things
I remember from skimming the emails for moderation problems. So, now
that I think I know what we're talking about, another thought came to
me.

RZSero wrote:
> The mitzvah is "that he not stumble on wood or stone" by attempting to
> navigate in the dark.  Therefore AIUI it applies to the person who's
> responsible for the maintenance of the rooms, i.e. the baal habayit,
who
> is by millennia-old tradition obligated to delegate it to his wife.

Is it on the gravra of the baal habayis, or on the cheftza of the
bayis itself? Difference being: If it's on the baal habayis, why
wouldn't mitzvah bo yoseir mibeshlucho make that minhag unlikely to
get started?

Side issue: The reference to eitz va'even is interesting, as the idiom
is from the issur AZ. Add to that that stumbling is taken figuratively
in lifnei iveir, and I see a vertl emerging. Something about the need
to make mitzvos enjoyable lest someone be led off the derekh. In
counterbalance to simple ana avda dQBH compliance to din.

SheTir'u baTov!
-micha

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