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# The minhag is that the husband of a woman, who gave birth that week, lights [[Shabbat]] candles for his wife.<Ref> Mishna Brurah 263:11. Sh”t Tzitz Eliezer 15:32:7 writes that essentially the woman who gave birth can light but the minhag is not to. </ref> | # The minhag is that the husband of a woman, who gave birth that week, lights [[Shabbat]] candles for his wife.<Ref> Mishna Brurah 263:11. Sh”t Tzitz Eliezer 15:32:7 writes that essentially the woman who gave birth can light but the minhag is not to. </ref> | ||
# A women who is going into surgery and knows she will be unconscious until after the [[Shabbat]] candles brunt out should light [[Shabbat]] candles with a Bracha. <Ref> Sh”t Tzitz Eliezer 15:32:6 writes that this case would be the same as a blind person who is allowed to light candles because the blind get benefit in that others will be able to see and help the blind. </ref> | # A women who is going into surgery and knows she will be unconscious until after the [[Shabbat]] candles brunt out should light [[Shabbat]] candles with a Bracha. <Ref> Sh”t Tzitz Eliezer 15:32:6 writes that this case would be the same as a blind person who is allowed to light candles because the blind get benefit in that others will be able to see and help the blind. </ref> | ||
==Where to light== | |||
# If one is staying in a hotel for Shabbat, some say that one should light an incandescent bulb with a bracha in one's private room. This may be done even if the light is in a closet or in the bathroom, however, if one lights in the bathroom, the bracha should be made outside the bathroom. However, if this option isn't possible, one should light in the dining room so that people can derive benefit from it, but one may not light with a bracha in a place that no one will get benefit from the candles. <ref>[http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/776128/Rabbi_Hershel_Schachter/Reishit_Bikkurim:_A_Guide_to_Shavuot_Observance Rav Hershel Schachter in a published pamphlet about Hilchot Shavuot] (p. 3)</ref> | |||
==Who's obligated?== | ==Who's obligated?== | ||
# A student in Yeshiva also has an obligation to light [[Shabbat]] candles and doesn't fulfill one's obligation with one's parent's if one is not at home. Preferably, one should lit in the room one sleeps in, however, if that's impossible, a student can fulfill their obligation if there's one student or | # A student in Yeshiva also has an obligation to light [[Shabbat]] candles and doesn't fulfill one's obligation with one's parent's if one is not at home. Preferably, one should lit in the room one sleeps in, however, if that's impossible, a student can fulfill their obligation if there's one student or woman who lights in the cafeteria with intent to fulfill the obligation of everyone. <ref> Piskei Teshuvot 263:11. See there where he adds that if the student isn't eating in the cafeteria but is eating in someone's house, seemingly one can't fulfill one's obligation with the candles lit in the cafeteria. Nonetheless, concludes the Piskei Teshuvot, that there's what to rely on the S"A HaRav who holds that by eating at someone's house one becomes like a family member. See the Radiance of [[Shabbat]] (pg 10; by Rabbi Simcha Bunim Cohen) who quotes Rabbi Pinchas Shienberg and Rav Moshe Feinstein who are lenient. </ref> | ||
==Time to light candles== | ==Time to light candles== | ||
