[Avodah] Ishto Kegufo on Chanukah

[Doron Beckerman]

Perhaps  the explanation is as follows - Chazal clearly have gradations in
terms of the requisite and/or permitted level of participation of people in
the Hadlakah of the Bayis.
1) One who is just eating a meal at another's home cannot be considered
living there at all, and must go to his own home to light.
2) One who is an Achsenai - a guest who will be staying there for the night,
but not a bona fide Ben Bayis, cannot be yotzei with the baal habayis
directly, but must be mishtatef (how this works is a matter of discussion).
3) One who is a bona fide Ben Bayis can be yotzei with the Hadlakah of the
Baal Habayis. However, he has the option of considering himself as 'less
than a full' ben Bayis and lighting his own Menorah. Even kids will
eventually be building their own homes, and in a sense, albeit remote, they
are "transients" in the home.
4) The husband and wife are defined as the Bayis itself ("Bayso Zo Ishto").
The woman cannot separate and define herself as less than a full bas Bayis.
Ishto Kegufo.
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