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<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">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. Rav YD Soloveitchik (quoted in Mipninei Harav pg. 22) says that in the absence of a minhag otherwise, the correct minhag is for an unmarried boy to wear a tallit gadol</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 achronim<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. Rav YD Soloveitchik (quoted in Mipninei Harav pg. 22) says that in the absence of a minhag otherwise, the correct minhag is for an unmarried boy to wear a tallit gadol</p>


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