[Avodah] Odd bar-mitzvah custom in Selish ca. 1923

[Zev Sero]

On 28/02/2011 7:54 PM, Joel C. Salomon wrote:
> On 02/28/2011 03:42 AM, Zev Sero wrote:

>> There exists a minhag that a yosom starts putting on tefillin a full year
>> before his bar mitzvah, rather than merely a few weeks or months.

> I had not heard of such a minhag, but that is interesting.  Do you know
> of a reason for the minhag?

See http://chabadlibrary.org/books/admur/ig/3/503.htm

A reference to this rather common minhag can be found here:
http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Judaism/2005/06/Today-I-Am-A.aspx



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