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Rav Ilan Meirov on "Halacha - May a Child Read from a Sefer Torah?"

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Rabbi Ilan Meirov

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so moaiba bhattai today we'll discuss a very interesting topic you know i'm asked this question all the time especially by people that go to education to celebrate the bar mitzvah of their children and they ask can i have my son read the torah even though he's at 13 yet he'll be 13 letters on friday and he wants to have the ceremony by the by the hotel you know on thursday you prepare for the torah right he's reading on chavez the kid can prepare two parties to read on mondays a little too much for him so he wants to move back and meet on thursday he's still a content meditator he can't be part of a minion could he read the torah on that thursday morning before he is officially 13 years old so the father as a joke told me he's like yeah he told me last week we have the men's section here at the woman the wall reading the torah there will have katana meaning in a different section all right everything is equal we're gonna have every every second but we'll see that the the kamar already discusses these cases and we'll try to go through what the roshani mold and what the meaning is in these matters but uh before we do that i want to give you a basic introduction on some important facts bizarre shame well we'll take out gemara number one over there we'll just look at some basic facts as an introduction the mishna over there tells us um any more sheets here okay so you notice my heart anyways in any event so the mishnah over there

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  1. 0:01so moaiba bhattai today we'll discuss a very interesting topic you know i'm asked this question
  2. 4:28the one who starts reading the one that ends reading foreign before and after we'll explain
  3. 8:47young though you could add is because no one's rushing to work anyways right so it's
  4. 13:03even a woman even a child the sake i would have thought is the covered shabbos
  5. 17:16definitely have to let kids is to allow oh it's to allow a kid to read
  6. 21:53it for the next person you're being guides him and he has a here okay so
  7. 26:43whatever whatever the case may be my wife whatever the case may be the mitzvah creates
  8. 30:54manchabas right they instituted shiyako hakatan hayode liquids the alice dominion shiva when they originally made
  9. 35:33right there wasn't my surrounding robot told me that he was living in north tel aviv
  10. 39:51are you talking about you have to go up come over to cebu if you have

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