[Avodah] Can a woman wear a wig if her mother did not?

[Elazar M. Teitz]

RJRich wrote, "First I think one might want to try to identify the source of the "minhag"  to 
add one candle per child.  I suspect it's an example of what the gemara refers to as 
"nahagu" - that people just started doing it that way and it caught on."

       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?

EMT

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