<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">> I had another idea a few days ago. I would like to suggest that</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">> mitzvas chinuch does NOT require us to concoct halachic mechanisms to</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">> enable the katan to do the mitzvos with all its details. Rather, it</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">> is totally acceptable for a child to do a mitzvah in a partial manner,</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">> and the parent is doing his chinuch thereby, provided that the parent</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">> explains this to the child... >></span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Thew key word is "partial manner" . POskim state that one should not give a minor</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">4 minim that are pasul because that is not chinuch. In davening the child does not have to say everything but it has to be at least a partial davening, i.e., complete portions and not half of many things.<br clear="all"></span><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div></div>
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