Chinuch L'Tefillin (Pre-Bar-Mitzvah Tefillin Training)
Beginning tefillin 1-3 months before bar mitzvah — Ashkenazi early, Sephardic on the 13th-birthday.
Beginning tefillin 1-3 months before bar mitzvah — Ashkenazi early, Sephardic on the 13th-birthday.
How it traveled
- Babylonian Talmud, SukkahSura (Babylonia) · c. 500 CEdefines
Key passages(4)
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לֹא שָׁנוּ אֶלָּא שֶׁלֹּא יָצָא בּוֹ, אֲבָל יָצָא בּוֹ — חַיָּיב. הָא מִדְּאַגְבְּהֵיהּ נְפַק בֵּיהּ! אָמַר אַבָּיֵי: כְּשֶׁהֲפָכוֹ.
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Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim · Joseph Karo · c. 1563 CE
A custom where boys begin wearing tefillin before their 13th birthday as preparation for bar mitzvah—Ashkenazi communities typically start 1-3 months early, while Sephardic communities wait until the
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Mishnah Berurah · Israel Meir Kagan (Chafetz Chaim) · c. 1875 CE
A custom where boys begin wearing tefillin before their 13th birthday as preparation for bar mitzvah—Ashkenazi communities typically start 1-3 months early, while Sephardic communities wait until the
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A custom where boys begin wearing tefillin before their 13th birthday as preparation for bar mitzvah—Ashkenazi communities typically start 1-3 months early, while Sephardic communities wait until the
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