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

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 02/09/17 15:09, Ben Waxman via Avodah wrote:
> I think that words like "original sin" are a bit bombastic. The issue 
> here is that we (the people living in the present) are living in a 
> reality that was affected by poor choices made in the past. Adam and 
> Chava may started this type of ripple effect when they ate the apple but 
> it didn't stop with them. You don't have to be a kabbalist to understand 
> that we live in this reality.

But that *is* the Xian doctrine of Original Sin.  The important 
differences are in the nature of the damage done, and whether there's 
anything we can do about it.

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Zev Sero                May 2017, with its *nine* days of Chanukah,
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