#002 Rabbi Zev Leff Jewish law relating to special needs children

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uh understanding and usually for those Mitzvah child has to be six or seven again depends on the child there are precocious children who could be even younger ages to understand these things and there are slower children that maybe have to be a little bit older to understand these things but for a normal child the the first kind of Mitzvah is around five or six the second kind of Mitzvah is around six or seven how about prohibitions okay child shouldn't eat something okay child shouldn't eat something that's not Kosher shouldn't do something that's a on shabas there the child doesn't have to um be so mature as he has to be for a MIT he has to just understand the idea of we don't do that now okay not just that you tell him don't eat this thing now and he understands my mother or father said don't do it now and that's it right but he doesn't understand that that same thing tomorrow he shouldn't eat either thing tomorrow he shouldn't eat either he has to be able to understand that this kind of thing we don't do and we don't there's an idea of one day a week when there's a chabas and there's certain things we don't do on chabas right children everything it's m right that's the blanket thing for anything L on chabas is m m so when a child can understand there's M and M is not on Tuesday or Wednesday but there's a shabas and he understands the days of the week and that usually a child is between four and 5 years old already has

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2. 3:34the um exception to that is that if the child is um not of an education…
3. 7:09are geniuses I knew one insane person uh years ago in Cleveland that he was a…
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6. 19:10people and um give you one example um a person has a daughter is 29 years…
7. 22:46situations they apply here also um another question a delicate question um a a child who…
8. 26:23my my typical daughter needs money for a sh how do I set priorities again that's…
9. 30:34therefore encourage him to do what he can do and don't make him do things that…
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