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# One should not enter the bathroom with his tallit gadol. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 21:3, Chayei Adam 11:37, Mishnah Berura 21:14, S"A Harav 21:3. </ref>
# One should not enter the bathroom with his tallit gadol. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 21:3, Chayei Adam 11:37, Mishnah Berura 21:14, S"A Harav 21:3. </ref>
# One shouldn't enter the bathroom with his tallit katan if it is on top of his clothing. It is permitted to enter with the tallit katan under his clothing. <ref> S"A 21:3, Kaf Hachayim 21:13. </ref>
# One shouldn't enter the bathroom with his tallit katan if it is on top of his clothing. It is permitted to enter with the tallit katan under his clothing. <ref> S"A 21:3, Kaf Hachayim 21:13. </ref>
# One should try to prevent his strings from touching the ground. <ref> S"A 21:4, Baer Heitev 21:5, Shaare Teshuva 21:5, S"A Harav 21:5</ref>
# One should try to prevent his strings from touching the ground. <ref> S"A 21:4, Baer Heitev 21:5, Shaare Teshuva 21:5, S"A Harav 21:5 </ref>
==Tallit Gadol==
==Tallit Gadol==
# The minhag for sephardim is to start wearing a tallit gadol from the age of chinuch in mitzvot. <ref> Kaf Hachayim 8:12, Yechave Daat 4:36. Halacha Berura 17:3 says that this age begins once the child can participate in the prayers in the shul. </ref> The minhag for most ashkenazim is not to wear one until one gets married. <ref> Keztot Hashulchan 7:7, Eliya Rabba 17:3, Tashbetz Katan 462 based on a Maharil in Hilchot Nisuin. </ref> However in Western-European communities the minhag is to wear it after the child's bar-mitsvah. <ref>{{NoSource}}</ref>
# The minhag for sephardim is to start wearing a tallit gadol from the age of chinuch in mitzvot. <ref> Kaf Hachayim 8:12, Yechave Daat 4:36. Halacha Berura 17:3 says that this age begins once the child can participate in the prayers in the shul. </ref> The minhag for most ashkenazim is not to wear one until one gets married. <ref> Keztot Hashulchan 7:7, Eliya Rabba 17:3, Tashbetz Katan 462 based on a Maharil in Hilchot Nisuin. </ref> However in Western-European communities the minhag is to wear it after the child's bar-mitzvah. <ref>The Piskei Teshuvot 8:10 writes that the minhag of not wearing a tallit before marriage spread in Eastern Europe including Lithuania and Poland, however, in Western Europe, specifically Hungry, the minhag wasn't very accepted. See Mishna Brurah 17:10 who questions the Maharil simply because he doesn't understand why someone who isn't yet married shouldn't fulfill the mitzvah of tzitzit.</ref>
## A sephardic boy studying in an ashkenazi yeshiva should continue his minhag to wear a tallit gadol. <ref> Yechave Daat 4:36 </ref>  
## A sephardic boy studying in an ashkenazi yeshiva should continue his minhag to wear a tallit gadol. <ref> Yechave Daat 4:36 </ref>  
# One should unfold the tallit before making the beracha so that there won't be any interruption between the beracha and the wrapping. <ref> Kaf Hachayim 206:4 </ref> If one made an interruption before placing the tallit on his head, he should recite a new beracha, but if he interrupted only after placing it on his head he doesn't recite a new beracha. <ref> Kaf Hachayim 8:39. He adds that if one hears kaddish, kedusha, or anything else that he would be required to answer to, he is permitted to do so. </ref>
# One should unfold the tallit before making the beracha so that there won't be any interruption between the beracha and the wrapping. <ref> Kaf Hachayim 206:4 </ref> If one made an interruption before placing the tallit on his head, he should recite a new beracha, but if he interrupted only after placing it on his head he doesn't recite a new beracha. <ref> Kaf Hachayim 8:39. He adds that if one hears kaddish, kedusha, or anything else that he would be required to answer to, he is permitted to do so. </ref>