[Avodah] The Scope of the "7 Mitzvos d'Rabbanan"

[Zev Sero]

rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com wrote:

> Talmud
> Sheiltos
> Behag
> Rif
> 
> All have brachah on Ner Hanukkkah
> YET
> NONE have brachah on Ner Shabbos!
> 
> WHY?
> 
> Now, Silence from ONE source is perhaps not proof positive OTOH
> Silence from that collective is aisi solid indication.

A ballebatishe answer is that men don't make the bracha, so it wasn't
on their minds.  Perhaps they didn't even know their wives were making
it and teaching their daughters to make it; or perhaps they knew but
it didn't need to be written down because it wasn't relevant to the
expected readership, who would never make it.

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