<div dir="ltr">Prof. Levine asks<div><br></div><div><span style><<Question: Given that today most people do not light their menora</span><br style><span style>outside in the street, is the reason given by the CS for women not</span><br style>
<span style>lighting still valid? Also, if the husband is lighting outside in</span><br style><span style>the street and the women are inside, can he be motzi them? I recall</span><br style><span style>that in one shul the rov insisted that men not daven in the ladies</span><br style>
<span style>section, because he felt that if they davened there, they were not</span><br style><span style>counted as part of the minyan. >></span></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">The candles are lit for the entire family. Thus, according to many poskim if the husband is working late the wife should light candles at nightfall even though the husband is miles away or even in another country and even in another time zone.</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">RYBS and Rav Lichtenstein both pasken that the wife should light candles in addition to the husband (according to the Ashkenazi custom) and so Rav Lichtenstein's wife (RYBS' daughter) lights her own candles</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">see</font></div><div><a href="http://www.vbm-torah.org/archive/salt-bereishit/10-5miketz.htm">http://www.vbm-torah.org/archive/salt-bereishit/10-5miketz.htm</a> </div>
<div><br></div><div>in Hebrew see</div><div><a href="http://www.lookstein.org/articles/women_and_chanukah.pdf">http://www.lookstein.org/articles/women_and_chanukah.pdf</a> </div><div><a href="http://www.etzion.org.il/vbm/archive/10-halak/06nashim_hanuka.php">http://www.etzion.org.il/vbm/archive/10-halak/06nashim_hanuka.php</a> <br clear="all">
<div><br></div>-- <br>Eli Turkel<br>
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