[Avodah] Havdalah On Wine Motza'ei Shabbos Chazon

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From: Lisa Liel <lisa at starways.net>
On 8/5/2011 6:08 AM,  Prof. Levine wrote:
>   From  http://revach.net/article.php?id=602
>
> If there is no boy, points  out Rav Elyashiv, do not give it to a  girl.

Why?

Lisa






>>>>
 
Does anyone know the source of the belief (folk belief?) that if a girl  
drinks the wine from havdalah, she will grow a moustache?
 
And in general there seems to be a widespread custom for women to avoid  
making havdalah -- where there is no such hakpada against women making kiddush 
 for themselves.  My mother amu'sh for example, and numerous other  women I 
know who live alone, will go to a neighbor for havdalah or have one of  her 
grandsons come in and make havdalah for her, but won't make havdalah for  
herself -- although she has no hesitation about making kiddush for  herself.  
My Lub next door neighbor comes to my house for havdalah when her  husband 
is out of town, and again, she has no problem making kiddush for  herself.   
It's something I've seen all my life but I don't know the  reason.
 
And of course I have /never/ seen anyone give a girl wine from havdalah,  
Nine Days or any other time.  The only "reason" I've ever heard was that  she 
would grow a moustache.   I take the moustache to be a symbol of  some kind 
of masculinity of body, mind or spirit that is inherent in  havdalah.  But 
what is the source?
 

--Toby  Katz
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