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== At What Age? == | == At What Age? == | ||
== Who is obligated in Chinuch? == | == Who is obligated in Chinuch? == | ||
* There is a machloket in the commentaries regarding whether the mitzvah of chinuch is for the parent or the child. | |||
# The book of Mishlei says that one should teach his child in a manner which will stick with him forever: “Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Rashi comments on this pasuk saying that depending on what you teach him those lessons will effect him the rest of his life. He is saying that the adult has the responsibility to correctly teach his son life lessons. This belief would suggest that chinuch is a mitzvah for the father, because he is the one who will have the ability to effect his child's future.<ref> Mishlei (22;6) and Rashi there as cited in ShortVort written by D. Fine </ref> | |||
# Rashi on the Gemara Berachot 20a also seems to indicate that the mitzvah is on the father because he says that a child who is of chinuch age is still not requried to say kriyat shema or put on tefillin because the rabbis did not require children to do mitzvot in which their fathers were not around to teach them. <ref>Gemara Brachot 20a a as cited in Shortvort written by D. Fine</ref> | |||
# Tosafot however seem to believe that the mitzvah of chinuch is for the child to do the mitzvah because Tosafot say that the child is responsible to say shema and put on tefillin once he reaches the age of chinuch even though the father would not always be around to teach him. <ref> Tosafot Berachot 2oa as cited in Shortvort written by D. Fine</ref> | |||
# While the majority of the Poskim hold that Chinuch only applies to the father, some say it also applies to the mother. <ref>Sefer Chinuch Yisrael (p. 61). See further in the Magen Avraham 343, Shulchan Aruch HaRav 343, Mishna Brurah 616:5, Aruch HaShulchan 343, and Pri Megadim E"A 225:5.</ref> | # While the majority of the Poskim hold that Chinuch only applies to the father, some say it also applies to the mother. <ref>Sefer Chinuch Yisrael (p. 61). See further in the Magen Avraham 343, Shulchan Aruch HaRav 343, Mishna Brurah 616:5, Aruch HaShulchan 343, and Pri Megadim E"A 225:5.</ref> | ||
== Until When? == | == Until When? == | ||
