Rosh Yeshiva Responds
Rabbi Linzer answers halakhic questions from rabbis and community members
I’d love to hear your perspective on tzitzit for young children.
I have three boys, two of whom already wear tzitzit daily. I constantly notice that their tzitzit are not kosher by normative halakhic standards. The boys are active, their tzitzit get dirty quickly, and I need to wash them very frequently, which I am sure contributes to the wear and tear.
So here are my questions:
Can I have my students count the Omer with a berakhah during the daytime, each day of class during the Omer?
One potentially complicating factor is that they will have already heard the count earlier in the day during loudspeaker morning announcements without a berakhah. However, most students talk over those loudspeaker announcements or are otherwise not paying attention then.
My thought is that this is a valuable chinukh moment because the students, by and large, don’t even know yet what Sefirat HaOmer is, nor what it looks like to do it, and/or have
Rosh Yeshiva Responds
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