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# There is a discussion among the poskim if women can ideally place the [[mezuzot]]. Many poskim write that it is even ideal for women to put up the [[mezuzot]]. <ref> [[Shevet Halevi]] 2:158:3, Kinyan Torah 2:58 and Chovat Hadar 9:3 write that women can put them up even ideally. Rav Hershel Schachter (Be'ikvei HaTzon p. 9) writes that the halacha follows the opinion that says women may put up [[mezuzot]]. Beer Moshe 2:100 and 6:79:5 as well as Teshuvot Vihanhagot 4:238:6 write that it is ideal for a man to put up the [[mezuzot]], however, if a women did put them up, it need not be removed. </ref> | # There is a discussion among the poskim if women can ideally place the [[mezuzot]]. Many poskim write that it is even ideal for women to put up the [[mezuzot]]. <ref> [[Shevet Halevi]] 2:158:3, Kinyan Torah 2:58 and Chovat Hadar 9:3 write that women can put them up even ideally. Rav Hershel Schachter (Be'ikvei HaTzon p. 9) writes that the halacha follows the opinion that says women may put up [[mezuzot]]. Beer Moshe 2:100 and 6:79:5 as well as Teshuvot Vihanhagot 4:238:6 write that it is ideal for a man to put up the [[mezuzot]], however, if a women did put them up, it need not be removed. </ref> | ||
==Children== | ==Children== | ||
# Ideally, a child should not place the mezuzah on a doorpost. <ref> Tzitz Eliezer 14:75, Chanoch Lanaar 35:4 </ref> | # Ideally, a child should not place the mezuzah on a doorpost. <ref> Tzitz Eliezer 14:75, Chanoch Lanaar 35:4 </ref> Sephardim hold that the child should put up the mezuzah for his doorway and when he becomes bar mitzvah'ed it should be taken down, checked, and put up again with a bracha.<ref>Yalkut Yosef YD 285:15</ref> | ||
# The doorway to a child's room should have a mezuzah for chinuch.<ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 291:3</ref> | # The doorway to a child's room should have a mezuzah for chinuch.<ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 291:3</ref> | ||
