<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 14, 2007 2:17 PM, Steven J Scher <<a href="mailto:sjscher@eiu.edu">sjscher@eiu.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><br>R'AM<br>> My personal practice is that in most cases, I light, but my wife does not,<br>> and both my sons and daughter light. This follows Mishne Brura 671:9,<br>> that because of "ishto k'gufo" (that husband and wife are two halves of
<br>> a whole), one of them can light and still be following the "each person"<br>> rule. It seems to me, though, that my unmarried daughter is unable to<br>> rely on this concept until she gets married, and so she must light for
<br>> herself in order to follow the "each person" rule.<br><br>I saw this MB too, but don't really understand it. Is there any other<br>case where the halacha or minhag is for everyone to do something, but we
<br>rely on ishto k'gufo to fulfill it?</blockquote><div><br>Not a direct answer but:<br>At least with hadlakas neiros [both for Hanukkah and for Shabbos] the wife can do it for the husband EVEN when the husband is away from thee house! Obviously this would not work with mitzvos hateluyos beguf. Maybe this is a case of a mitzvas hateluya babbayis EVEN for theAshknezice mehadrin min hamehadrin.
<br> <br><br>KT,<br></div></div><a href="mailto:RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com">RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com</a><br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>