[Avodah] wife lighting menorah

[Eli Turkel]

<<I don't know if the MB is the only one to say this exception, but I have
not found it elsewhere, though it seems to have become the common psak,
at least among the ashkenazy yeshivishe community in Eretz Yisroel.

Where else do we find a wife being excluded from a mitzva because of the
exception of eeshto k'gufo? I could not think of any other mitzva where
we exclude her like this. If this is the only one, what is different
about Chanukah candles that we exclude her (and this is so despite the
women being central to the miracle, ala Yehudis who cut off the
governors head) than by any other mitzva?>>

Yes this is common practice
R. Aharaon Lichtenstein has a long article on this issue and brings up the
same point.
He ends stating that RYBS had his wife lighting candles and that is also his
(RAL)
custom to have the wife light candles.

RAL makes the point elsewhere that if ishto ke-gufo would one be allowed to
tell
lashon ha-ra to one's wife?

-- 
Eli Turkel
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