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Do you as a woman light the menorah?
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amother
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 Wed, Dec 21 2022, 10:03 am
Do you as a woman light the menorah?
Why or why not?
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amother
Linen
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Wed, Dec 21 2022, 10:05 am
No. I didn’t grow up with it and dont feel
The need to. My young daughter does light because my husband encouraged it and she wants to
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BrisketBoss
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Wed, Dec 21 2022, 10:06 am
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I do! Stressfully, because I'm afraid of fire, but it's something I want to do.
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amother
Forestgreen
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Wed, Dec 21 2022, 10:08 am
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Not when my husband is around. But there were times when he was out working until late and I lit with a bracha for our family. Our unmarried daughters light at home as well.
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amother
Topaz
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Wed, Dec 21 2022, 10:15 am
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I don't light, but my daughters do. (Teens)
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amother
Amaryllis
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Wed, Dec 21 2022, 10:36 am
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Im was going to ask this question, as there's a young couple who lives next to me and I see that they both light, and I thought that married women dont light, like even if your sons make kiddush, the wife will never make kidush (ok, maybe by the seder), but I guess some women do light.
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amother
Bergamot
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Wed, Dec 21 2022, 10:41 am
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I'm sephardi. Our minhag is one menorah only per household. My husband lights and is motzi all of us.
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BrisketBoss
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Wed, Dec 21 2022, 10:43 am
| amother Bergamot wrote: | | I'm sephardi. Our minhag is one menorah only per household. My husband lights and is motzi all of us. |
In college, our rabbi told us that all of us Ashkis had to light for ourselves because we were living away from home, but the Sephardi students could be covered by their parents.
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NotInNJMommy
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Wed, Dec 21 2022, 10:43 am
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The men (13+) in my home light and the kids when they are little regardless of gender. If my DH or bar mitzvah bachur aren't home for lighting when we want to light to be yotzei with one of them, then I'll light for myself and my other children.
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scruffy
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Wed, Dec 21 2022, 10:45 am
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I lit until I got married.
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amother
Orchid
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Wed, Dec 21 2022, 10:46 am
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Nope. And I don't feel deprived or disrespected because I don't.
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amother
Bergamot
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Wed, Dec 21 2022, 10:46 am
| BrisketBoss wrote: | | In college, our rabbi told us that all of us Ashkis had to light for ourselves because we were living away from home, but the Sephardi students could be covered by their parents. |
Exactly!
In seminary, all my friends were lighting their own menorahs. I was told I was covered by my parents.
My husband never lit his own menorah until we got married. We got married right before Chanukah, I remember how excited he was to finally have his own menorah!
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LovesHashem
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Wed, Dec 21 2022, 10:48 am
I do. It was something important to me, growing up I did every year and our yeshivish Rav was very supporting of it.
Dh was a bit weirded out the first year we got married but he is a very supportive husband.
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Chickensoupprof
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Wed, Dec 21 2022, 10:50 am
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I did it before, now I don't bother... too tired to get track of this is it already bedtime? 4:50 meh still need to make supper >.>
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tweety1
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Wed, Dec 21 2022, 11:08 am
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My girls light till bas mitzvah if they want to. Otherwise no.
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Ema of 5
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Wed, Dec 21 2022, 11:15 am
| amother OP wrote: | Do you as a woman light the menorah?
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I did until I got married. Then for a bit even after I got married I did, but then I stopped. I don’t remember why, maybe someone’s menorah broke and I gave them mine, and then that was that? My girls light, so it definitely isn’t a “girls don’t light” thing.
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NechaMom
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Wed, Dec 21 2022, 11:19 am
No
I guess for the same reason I don’t make kiddush or havdala or do bedikas chometz either.
I have lit when I was single though.
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shabbatiscoming
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Wed, Dec 21 2022, 11:36 am
Yes. As a single girl and as a married woman.
Its not a thing in my community for women not to light.
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