[Avodah] wife lighting menora

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From: "kennethgmiller at juno.com" _kennethgmiller at juno.com_ 
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>>  On Chanukah, in all these cases, our practice (call it "minhag" or 
"mehadrin" or  whatever) is for each person to light their own lights, but it is 
not absolutely  required. Yet, each and every member of the family does try 
to light their own  anyway -- except for the wife. 

And on Shabbos, anyone could be the one  to light the lights for the house, 
but under typical circumstances, no one does  so, except for the wife.  <<



Akiva  Miller

 
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This comes up every year on Avodah.
 
In my home and in most yeshivish homes, only the husband lights.  In  many 
chassidishe homes, all the males light -- but not the girls.  On the  
frum-o-meter, as you go from left to right, the percentage of homes in which  
females light their own menorah decreases.
 
As for mother lighting Shabbos candles, it's true in most homes that mother 
 lights for everyone, but in Lub homes all girls light from the age of  
three.   (That's because Rivka lit at the age of three, and my husband  says, 
"If my daughters were married at the age of three, they'd light candles at  
age three, too!")
 
 

--Toby Katz
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