Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

the importance of having tzitzis during tefillah.

So therefore, if there's going to be one time during the day where we're going to make sure that we're doing the mitzvah of tzitzis properly, with the proper shiur and everything, it's certainly going to be during tefillah.

Okay, but why wait for marriage?

Why not do it right away, as soon as the child is davening?

So the l'chorah, or at least as soon as it becomes our mitzvah, in fact, the Mishaburah in Simeon Yud Zayin, Sivkaton Yud, says...

he says it's really strange that people are until they get married why would you be until you get married now the truth is before they get married before they get married so lots of people but

Lots of people wear talis before they get married.

But there is a segment of the Ashkenazi population that does not.

So there are two consecutive psukim in Parshas Kisaytse which teach about tzitzis.

One psalm teaches about tzitzis.

The next psalm is Ki Ikach Ish Isha.

that might imply some connection with Yikach Esh Esha and Tzitzis.

In fact, the parash harash ala Torah, ki yikach esh Esha, maksiv l'mayla, g'dilim ta'selcha, mikant smach l'min ha'golam, shalokhen talus l'chassan k'shi esi Esha.

And this is a smach for the min ha'golam that we buy a talus for a chassan when he gets married.

Now, he does not say that we do not buy one for him before he gets married.

Maybe we just get him a new one.

when he gets married, that it's a smach for that minach.

It doesn't say that it's his first talis.

The Sefer HaManik takes this as a real source to first start wearing a talis when getting married, and he quotes Kiddush and Chavtas, that one Amorah met another, and he said, how come you're not wearing a talis?

And he said, because I'm not married, that's why I'm not wearing tzitzis.