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Girls who normally pray <\/span>Sha\u0125arit<\/span><\/i> in school and who will go hungry and will jeopardize their health or adversely affect their concentration on studies and prayers unless they eat and drink at home may do so. If a small meal without bread is sufficient, that is preferable; at their first recess they can wash their hands and eat bread. The argument should not be made that it is better that they pray <\/span>Sha\u0125arit<\/span><\/i> at home and not eat before <\/span>Sha\u0125arit<\/span><\/i> because the consistency of prayer in school edifies the students and validates the status of prayer. Still, it is best to recite <\/span>Birkhot Ha-sha\u0125ar<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Birkhot Ha-Torah<\/span><\/i> before eating and drinking. 1<\/a><\/sup> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Minors who have not yet reached the age of <\/span>mitzvot<\/span><\/i> \u2013 twelve for girls and thirteen for boys \u2013 may eat before prayer. Although we generally train minors not to eat forbidden food, this applies when the food itself is forbidden because it is not kosher. However, when the Sages prohibited eating before prayer or before <\/span>kiddush<\/span><\/i>, they did so as a safeguard. Since the food itself is not forbidden, minors need not abide by that safeguard. Nevertheless, <\/span>le-khat\u0125ila<\/span><\/i> it is proper that they do not eat before prayer, though when it is necessary they are permitted (MB 106:5; <\/span>Yabi\u2019a Omer<\/span><\/i> 4:12:15; <\/span>Kaf Ha-\u0125ayim <\/span><\/i>106:11). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. It is hard to be lenient for boys who have become bar mitzva, because their obligation in prayer is explicit. However, concerning women, the obligation of the Sha\u0125arit prayer is indistinct, as some poskim say that women are only obligated to pray one prayer daily and that they can fulfill their obligation by praying Min\u0125a. Some even say that they can fulfill their obligation by reciting only Birkhot Ha-sha\u0125ar and Birkhot Ha-Torah, as explained above, 2:3-5. Hence, the prohibitions before Sha\u0125arit are indeterminate as well, and as a result, in times of need, one may be lenient and eat before prayer. Igrot Moshe 4:101:2, and Halikhot Shlomo 2:4 state similarly. Halikhot Bat Yisrael 2 n. 10, quotes a letter from R. Shlomo Zalman Auerbach allowing seminary girls to eat in their house before going to school. He adds that they must say a brief prayer prior to eating (I recommend reciting Birkhot Ha-sha\u0125ar and Birkhot Ha-Torah which they must say anyway). Further, he adds that it is good that they accept upon themselves the yoke of Heaven by saying \u201cShema Yisrael.\u201d ↩<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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