<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>from halacha . net, </span></div><div><span>i don['t havbe access to the tzitz eliezer, however, how can children be "obligated" <br></span></div><div><span>to perform mitzvot ( i was always taught, that the reason they say berachot, etc) <br></span></div><div><span>is just to "train" them, and/or for chinuch purposes. <br></span></div><div><b>Question:</b> Although a Bar Mitzvah is a very significant, happy occasion, I
find that Askenazim will still say Tachenun if the Bar Mitzvah is held
on a Monday or Thursday; the Sephardim, I understand, do not. In
view of the fact that we do not say Tachanun during the 7 days following a
chasana, nor do we say Tachnenun when there is a Bris, what is the rationale for its being
recited in shul during a Bar Mitzvah celebration? <br>
<b>Dear Irvin</b> <br>
This question has been dealt with in the past by halachic authorities. In the
esponsa "Nahar Mitzrayim", it states that the custom is not to say tachanun when
the Bar Mitzva boy is present on his 13th birthday. Rav Ovadia Yosef,shlit"a,
in Responsa "Yabia Omer" (vol.1,no.27 and vol.4, no. 14) brings additional
proofs for this opinion. On the other hand, among Askenazim, this is not the custom,
and to explain this, Rav Eliezer Waldenberg, shlit"a, in Responsa Tzitiz Eliezer (vol
11, no.17) writes among other reasons that since a minor is also Rabbinically obligated in
mitzvot, we do not make a distinction between this obligation and the Torah obligation,
since this would appear to be a lack of respect for the Rabbinic obligation. <br>
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</div><div> </div><div>hmz</div><div><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:arial, helvetica, clean,
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