#26: Who Lights Shabbat Candles? (Part 2)
- Based on what we learned in the previous post, although married women are given precedence in lighting Shabbat candles, if a married woman is not home for Shabbat, then her husband should light instead (Shemirat Shabbat K'hilchata 43:7). In such a case, a daughter over bat-mitzvah age may also light, and some poskim even write that this is the preferred option (see https://www.dirshu.co.il/221654/).
- Some have the custom that girls/single women also light their own candles (Aruch Hashulchan 263:7). The Lubavitcher Rebbe urged girls to begin lighting already at age 3. Sephardim generally do not have this custom that all girls light (Yechaveh Da’at 2:32), and many Ashkenazim don't either (Peninei Halachah 4:2).
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Dedicated by Fran Broder as a zechus for the hostages to be released safely to their families and may everlasting peace come to Eretz Yisrael in the merit of learning Hilchos Shabbos.
