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size=2>From: Zev Sero <A
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rabbirichwolpoe@gmail.com wrote:<BR><BR>> Talmud<BR>> Sheiltos<BR>>
Behag<BR>> Rif<BR>> <BR>> All have brachah on Ner Hanukkkah<BR>>
YET<BR>> NONE have brachah on Ner Shabbos!<BR>> <BR>> WHY?<BR>>
<BR>> Now, Silence from ONE source is perhaps not proof positive OTOH<BR>>
Silence from that collective is aisi solid indication.<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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size=2>>> A ballebatishe answer is that men don't make the bracha,
so it wasn't<BR>on their minds. Perhaps they didn't even know their wives
were making<BR>it and teaching their daughters to make it...
<<<BR><BR>-- <BR>Zev
Sero
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<DIV>But that would imply that a woman somewhere composed the bracha on her own
initiative and told other women to say it. Highly unlikely.</DIV>
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