Typos in the Rebbe’s Printed Letters, or Edits?

But before we talk about those topics, I want to start off with a major, major storm that erupted last week in the Torah circles, that is, in the Chabad Torah circles.

And that is there is a discussion about when the age of tznius, of the fact that girls have to dress tzniusdig, what age does that start? So just to int-introduce the topic, there is-- if the first discussion is when we talk about Halachas of ervah in terms of kirshma, that if you now learn to daven and say, and say Shema, the original Halacha is about Shema in front of a ervah.

So what age does a girl that you now learn to daven in the presence of a ervah start? That we already have from the earlier Rishonim, from the Rashbatz, Kadmonim in Brachos, who writes very, very clearly that at the age of three, it-- the Halachas of ervah start regarding kirshma.

And we have afterwards many Acharonim that say the same, who didn't necessarily see the Rashbatz, the Chay Adam, and others as well.

Likewise, when we talk about the Halacha of tefach megula, that even if there's a part of the body, not the ervah mamash, not the place of ervah, but any part of the body which is a tefach, which is exposed, you now learn to say Shema.

So we have the Ish HaLev Avraham.

We quoted him many times in our podcast.

So there was the Talmid of the Ba'al Shem Tov, Rav Avraham David of Buchach.

We have the Shulchan Shlomo.

Not to be confused, there's two Shulchan Shlomos, just like we mentioned there's two Kaf HaChaims.

There's an early Sh-Shulchan Shlomo who was a Rav in Mir, printed in the early taf-kufs.

I think taf-kuf, lamed-aleph, I remember, who the Mission Berur quotes a lot of times.

And there's a later Shulchan Shlomo of our generation, Shulchan Shlomo Zalman Auerbach.

So here I'm talking about the original Shulchan Shlomo.

The Mission Berur brings him actually in this case as well, that a girl of three years old and she's a tefach exposed, then you now learn to say Shema.

And then our generation, Rabbi Avraham Chaim Na'ah, the Chabad, famous Chabad posek in his sefer, Eksei HaShulchan.

In the notes in back of the sefer, he wrote Ha'aras on the sefer.

I think in the new prints they put everything in the s- in, in the place where it's supposed to be.

But in the original print that I have, an older print, there's Ha'aras in back of the sefer.

And there he brings that Din that three years old onwards.

And this is mentioned in, in many other sefarim as well.

Now, here the discussion is slightly different.

We're not talking about whether amal ha'daven, when we-- when is she supposed to start wearing tznius clothing.

Now, it seems like it would follow the same philosophy because one of the reasons that we wear tznius clothing is that there shouldn't be things that are exposed that are not meant to be exposed.

So a lot of posekim write specifically about tznius clothing as well.