[Avodah] lighting candles

[Eli Turkel]

<<  Today we are accustomed to thinking of childbirth as nothing too
serious as far as the mother's physical condition is concerned.  Until
the fairly recent past, however, it was treated much more seriously --
it's not so long ago that the normal post-partum hospital stay was two
weeks.  It would not surprise me if failing to light candles the first
Shabbos after giving birth was not a rarity, and the din mentions that
missing a week calls for lighting an extra candle for life.  Is it too
far a stretch to assume that those places which adopted the hanhaga of
an extra candle per child did so k'de lo l'vayeish those who missed,
by making it the practice of everyone?>>

I also heard this reason many years ago.

What happens with the birth of twins or triplets? Did the mother stay
in the hospital that much longer?

Which leads to my question: Do we say "lo plug" on minhagim especially
those that seems to have arisen by themselves.
I was wondering if this had anything to do we the arguments of
kitniyot. Here too there doesnt seem to have been any formal gezerah
as Rabbenu Yechiel didn't know of anything. Thus, it would seem that
kitniyot also "arose" from unofficial minhagim. Many modern poskim
therefore say it doesnt apply whenever the reasons dont apply or to
new products (eg cottenseed and canola oil etc.). Other poskim seem to
apply "lo pkug" that it applies to anything within the category of
kitniyot on matter what.

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Eli Turkel