Reply To: Confusing halacha, minhag, chumra and shtus*

Wow!!! From Halacha for today:

However, the custom is to light a minimum of two candles.

(See Shulchan Aruch Siman 263:1)

2) It is a Mitzvah to have a lot of candles.

The prevalent Minhag is to start off lighting two candles, and to add an additional candle for each subsequent child that is born to the family, e.g. a family with four children lights six candles.”