Must a person who sinned before becoming bar/bat mitzvah perform teshuvah once grown?
Synopsis
The Rema rules that while teshuvah is not formally required for pre-bar-mitzvah sins, it is pious and advisable to accept some form of atonement. Commentators support this view.
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