Rabbi Reuven Lauffer - Basic Judaism: Shabbat Candle Lighting - Part 6

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

okay here here hello lighting showers candles laws jewish laws here we go there is a custom which is something over here that some of you should have to store this custom away because it might not be applicable in the you know certainly not within the next few weeks we should have learned this actually a couple of weeks ago that the minigun the first showers after a lady has given birth you know you didn't know this right but uh that's two now it's too late um that she shouldn't like she shouldn't like the shabbos candles but rather her husband should like to shove his candles for her um the reason for that of course is because uh you know after pose birth very often it's discomfort there's a lot going on it's uh it's difficult it's hard so let somebody else do it for her um however again most nowadays the truth is that many women uh they like the candles on the first shop as well they've given birth because things have progressed medically uh apparently it's a little less traumatic nowadays giving birth than it used to be a hundred years ago um of course it depends who you ask obviously right but that's that that's what they say and um therefore she want you know whatever she wants to do she wants to like the shabbos candle she should like the showers candles if she doesn't feel that she's up to it then you certainly the husband should like the candles instead um oh we spoke about this a little bit yesterday but in a place where's the who asked the question about being in

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1. 0:16okay here here hello lighting showers candles laws jewish laws here we go there is a…
2. 4:30the logic behind it all actually um yeah you remember seeing it yeah i'm not sure…
3. 9:19that's absolutely fine okay so interesting little thing right rather the the uh the disagreement over…
4. 14:00if you literally or you're a big dinner then everybody's got their own roles yeah did…
5. 18:10your hands and now you're waiting for the person to come and to make hawaii to…
6. 23:00on for quite a moment actually incense right incense candles you do have to be careful…
7. 27:48that point it is something which is i don't think it's possible to say that it's…
8. 32:06if it was like wrong to go back to candles or it's an interesting question actually…
9. 36:54either you're in the middle of work or you're in the middle of meetings or you're…
10. 41:31we got we got a pretty good minion out there what was it called i if…

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