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# A Katan, or minor child who is less than 13 years old, should wear tzitzit, with a bracha, once he reaches the age of [[chinuch]] <ref>The Shulchan Aruch (17:3) doesn’t specify an exact age, rather the idea is once a child knows how to properly wear the tzitzit so that two strings are behind him and two in front (Rema 17:3) </ref>. | # A Katan, or minor child who is less than 13 years old, should wear tzitzit, with a bracha, once he reaches the age of [[chinuch]] <ref>The Shulchan Aruch (17:3) doesn’t specify an exact age, rather the idea is once a child knows how to properly wear the tzitzit so that two strings are behind him and two in front (Rema 17:3) </ref>. | ||
# The proper age of [[chinuch]] for the mitzvah of tzitzit is nine years old. <ref> Kitzur S"A of Rav Rephael Baruch Toledano, siman 9, the proper time for tzitzit and who is obligated, seif 2 </ref> | # The proper age of [[chinuch]] for the mitzvah of tzitzit is nine years old. <ref> Kitzur S"A of Rav Rephael Baruch Toledano, siman 9, the proper time for tzitzit and who is obligated, seif 2 </ref> | ||
===Should Bochrim Wear a Tallit?=== | |||
<p class="indent">The Sephardic custom is to wear a tallit gadol from the age of [[chinuch]] in mitzvot.<ref>Kaf Hachaim 8:12, Chacham Ovadia Yosef (Yechave Daat 4:2), Chacham Yitzchak Yosef (Yalkut Yosef 17:4). Or Litzion (Chelek 2, 3:7) says that the age is around 5.</ref> Chacham Ovadia adds that this is true even for a boy studying in an ashkenazi yeshiva.<Ref>Rav Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron (Binyan Av Chelek 2, OC 7:1) agrees</ref></p> | |||
<p class="indent">However, the minhag for most ashkenazim seems to be not to wear one until one gets married unless one goes up to the torah or leads [[prayers]]. Some rishonim<ref>Tashbetz Katan 464, Sefer Hamanhig Chelek 2: Hilchot Nisuin pg. 539, and Maharil Hilchot Ishut 10</ref> quote a midrash which learns from the juxtaposition of גדילים תעשה לך and כי יקח איש אשה (Devarim 22:12-13), that a man should not wear a tallit until he gets married.<ref>Tzitz Eliezer 20:8 notes that the Maharil only meant that before getting married one doesn’t wear a tallit gadol, but certainly one should still wear a tallit katan.</ref> Piskei Teshuvot 8:10 writes that this minhag spread to several countries in Europe including Lithuania and Poland, while in other Ashkenaz communities it didn’t. Some achronim<ref>Mishna Brurah 17:10 and Shiyarei Knesset Ha-gadol 17:2, cited in Ba'er Heiteiv 17:4, before him</ref> questioned these Rishonim and simply don’t understand why someone who isn’t married would not fulfill this mitzva from the torah of wearing tzitzit. </p> | |||
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