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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>From: "kennethgmiller@juno.com" <A href="mailto:kennethgmiller@juno.com">kennethgmiller@juno.com</A><BR><BR><BR>>>
On Chanukah, in all these cases, our practice (call it "minhag" or "mehadrin" or
whatever) is for each person to light their own lights, but it is not absolutely
required. Yet, each and every member of the family does try to light their own
anyway -- except for the wife. <BR><BR>And on Shabbos, anyone could be the one
to light the lights for the house, but under typical circumstances, no one does
so, except for the wife. <<<BR><BR><BR><BR>Akiva
Miller</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>This comes up every year on Avodah.</DIV>
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<DIV>In my home and in most yeshivish homes, only the husband lights. In
many chassidishe homes, all the males light -- but not the girls. On the
frum-o-meter, as you go from left to right, the percentage of homes in which
females light their own menorah decreases.</DIV>
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<DIV>As for mother lighting Shabbos candles, it's true in most homes that mother
lights for everyone, but in Lub homes all girls light from the age of
three. (That's because Rivka lit at the age of three, and my husband
says, "If my daughters were married at the age of three, they'd light candles at
age three, too!")</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><BR><B>--Toby Katz<BR>==========<BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"></B>--------------------</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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