Today in the boys' Tefila we spoke about why we put on Tefillin for the first time before our actual Bar Mitzvah. Some people as much as a month before.
Kody said that it was so we could get practice for when we have to do it for real. Ari F. said that it was so we could become more connected to the Tefillin and understand more about it.
I also added that I felt that it was to help us get into a routine so that when we become Bar Mitzvah it takes us less time and we can concentrate more on the mitzvah rather than the mechanics of putting on the Tefillin.
Does anyone else have any ideas on why we might do it this way?
Scott
I think that we do it this way because it tefillin is a mitzvah that we do every Chol, every weekday, and it is a very common Mitzvah, so you need to have knowledge about it. For example, we don't practice breaking the middle Matza on Pesach because we only do that twice a year and it's pretty straight-forward. But in the other more common Mitzvos like Kiddush and keeping Shabbos, you need knowledge beforehand about how to do those Mitzvos.
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