Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz
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That a person doesn't have a talus until he gets married?
They used to get married around the Bar Mitzvah, so they
became chayiv and mitzvahs.
That's what they were going to tell us.
They came from places that had such a minach.
Kleisenberger has a tshuva in Divrei Yatziv Chalek Or Chayim Simimem Dalid where he quotes several other reasons for the minach.
He says the tzitzis carry reminders of all Taryag mitzvahs.
Like Rashi says, the gematria of tzitzis is Tafresh and then the eight strings and the five knots.
So it's a reminder for all Taryug mitzvos.
So before you're able to do the biggest mitzvah, Puruvu, it doesn't make sense to wear them because you're missing something too big in the world of mitzvos.
That's especially true since the Gemara says in Yivam Estaf Samach Beis that a man who's shari below Isha is below Torah.
So how could you be with Taryug mitzvos when shari below Isha?
Then the Kleisenberger says that the tzitzis represents lo sasuru achrei eineichem.
And that is why the Gemara Menachas, Tav Mem Dalet, says that when someone was a Nixal in this area, the Dalet Tzitzios came and slapped him.
Because the Tzitzis represents protection of Los HaSuru Ach Reinechem.
But before a person is married, the Gemara Kiddushim says that he's Kol Yomav Ba'avera.
So we don't allow fulfilling Mitzvot Tzitzis Beshlemos Ad She'isa Isha.
Then the Klaizen Magor suggests, the Gemara Menachas, Mem Gimelem Be'ez, is quoting Shulchan Aruch Simuchav Dalet, that Kol Azor is B'mitzvot Zu Zohar Mekabel P'Neshchina.
That if you're careful about tzitzis, you'll have kabbalahs p'nei shechina.
And so, Tadaf Yitzhayan tells us, So that it all aligns to have this sense of kabbalahs ha-shechina.