[Avodah] wife lighting menora

[Liron Kopinsky]

> Where else do we find a wife being excluded from a mitzva because of the

> > exception of eeshto k'gufo? ...
>

Something I have been thinking on this:
It seems to me that Neirot Chanukah is a mitzvah on the gavrah (like putting
on tefillin). As such, you are not yotzei if you have chanukkah candles that
were lit in a non-kosher place and then moved. Rather, you need a ma'aseh
hadlaka in a kosher location to fulfill the mitzva. Further, once the
candles have been light, the mitzva is 100% completed, even if the candles
go out in less than 30 minutes. As such, the mitzvah is the hadlaka itself
and not the existance of light.

(Does this then imply that you are yotzei with stolen oil?)

With this in mind, can you say that since Ishto k'Kufo, she is actually
mekayim the physical act of hadlaka through her husband? Are there any
mitzvot asei she'hazman LO grama are there that women would be able to
fulfill through the gavrah of her husband?
On the other hand, we don't say by pesach seder that women can be yotzei
arba kossot through their husband drinking...


Happy Chanukkah,
Liron
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