Must the size standard for a child's four-cornered garment (requiring chinuch) be measured according to the child himself?
Synopsis
The question arises whether a father fulfilling the chinuch obligation for his child to wear tzitzit must use the child's own body as the measure, or the standard adult-child benchmark.
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