[Avodah] Mitzvat Al HaNissim and the obligation of Women

[Shoshana L. Boublil]

> Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 18:59:44 +0200
> From: Eli Turkel <eliturkel at gmail.com>

> <<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.

[SLB writes] I haven't noticed the previous discussion on this topic, but in
Sephardi households, only the father lights the Chanuka Menorah - though it
is customary to give the wife and children the opportunity to light some of
the candles.
 
> Where else do we find a wife being excluded from a mitzva because of the
> exception of eeshto k'gufo? 
[del]

> 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.

[SLB writes] RAL has another interesting article on the 3 halachot given by
R' Yehoshu'a Ben Levi concerning the obligation of women: chanuka; Megilla
and 4 Kossot (pesach).

Shoshana L. Boublil