Women and Chanukah Lighting

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Growing up, everyone in my family lit the Chanukah menorah. Everyone, that is, except my mother. After my father lit, we would go in the order of the children, from oldest to youngest, including my sisters. I imagine that if you grew up in an Ashkenazic home, your family followed a similar practice. There's only one problem: it doesn't really make much sense. If my mother didn't light, then why did my sisters – especially after they became Bat Mitzvah? And if adult women should light, shouldn't mothers light as well?

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    Learning on the Marcos and Adina Katz YUTorah site is sponsored today by Harris and Elisheva Teitz Goldstein l'ilui nishmas הרבנית בתיה בת הרב אלעזר מאיר, Rebbetzin Bessie Preil Teitz z'l, on her 31st yahrzeit, ג' אייר