[Avodah] Why is it customary for women and not men to light the Shabbos candles?

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 31/08/17 09:55, Professor L. Levine via Avodah wrote:
> I have never understood the reason given by the Tur,  since to me it 
> sounds like "original sin."  YL

And your problem with this is?   Did you think only Xians beleived in 
Chet Etz Hada'as?!   True, there is a big difference between our view of 
it and theirs, primarily that we believe it only affects the guf, but 
the "neshama shenasata bi tehora hi", while they believe it affects the 
neshama as well.  But everyone agrees that it affects us all deeply, and 
that it requires a major tikkun -- pretty much all of our avodah in this 
world for all of human history.  So why should it surprise us that the 
task of bringing physical light into the world should be part of that 
tikun that is preferentially assigned to those who more closely resemble 
Chava than Adam?

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Zev Sero                May 2017, with its *nine* days of Chanukah,
zev at sero.name           be a brilliant year for us all