Question: I have
noticed that certain shuls honour children to sing anim zemiros
and open the aron beforehand, while other Shuls don’t. What is correct?
Answer: To emphasize the holiness of anim
zemiros, ascribed to R’ Yehuda Hachassid, we open the aron hakodesh
while singing it. The Bach (OC 132) mentions the minhag to sing it daily,
though most shuls sing it every Shabbos while the Vilna Gaon held that
it should only be sung on Yom Tov (See Nesiv Bina 2 p260).
Due to this, R' Ephraim Greenblatt (Rivevos Ephraim 5:237) and R’ Moshe
Sternbuch (Teshuvos Vehanhagos 2:81) hold that it is inappropriate for a child
to lead anim zemiros.
Nonetheless, R’ Shlomo Zalman
Auerbach (12:96) held that a child may do so (See Ishei Yisrael 36:n196). Many shuls
follow this, especially as they want to encourage child participation at the
end of davening.
Many expectant husbands
follow the Chida (Avodas HaKodesh, Moreh Baetzba 3:90; Yosef Ometz 57) who
writes that the local minhag was for expectant husbands to do pesicha
in their wife’s ninth month as a segula for an easy birth (See Kaf
Hachaim OC 134:12).
Others quote the Birchas
Ephraim (60) who writes that he heard that the Rashba held that the minhag
was for husbands to do pesicha for anim zemiros (rather than to
take the Torah out) from the seventh month.
While the Mishna Berura
(147:29) writes that a child shouldn’t hold a Sefer Torah, this shouldn’t apply
to pesicha where the Torah isn’t removed.
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