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The Rebbe said a series of Rashi sichos where he analysed the depth of rashi, Rashis difficulty with the posuk and the many gems and lessons within. There is allot shakla vtarya there and often it ends off with a beautiful lesson.
One such memorable lesson I remember is on the Rashi of vayita oholo where rashi comments that the word is written ohola, her tent, to hint that Avraham pitched his wife’s tent before his own.
The Rebbe asks where rashi based his chiddush from and why he didn’t quote a source for the ben chomesh lmikra. He answers that the ben chomesh lmikra doesn’t need a source and doesn’t see it as a great chiddush because he sees Avraham Avinus behaviour reflected in his own home by the way his father treats his mother.
So Joseph can bring a bunch of sources from today till next year, bringing more and more to prove that the man ought to be master. We normal people who have been brought up in healthy frum homes and/or are in healthy marriages (I wouldn’t be so worried about Josephs wife, he is most probably either a bachelor or divorced) know that we respect our husbands as the heads of the home and take their guidance especially in spiritual matters seriously (assuming they are spiritually healthy. If not we strive to help them grow with encouragement). They in turn ask for our opinions and consult us on household matters and we both make sure we are on the same pages with chinuch etc. Some things we have more of the decision making role some things our husbands but we strive to discuss things together and come to decisions together in mutual respect. That is the Torah way and has been the way of healthy Jewish homes since the first.