Quoting%20commentary for Moed Katan 28:1

ואי אמרת קטן אית ביה פלוגתא נמצאת אבילות נוהגת בקטן

Now if you say that there is a difference here in the case of the infant,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Whether the infant was born during or before the festival, in which latter case he must not be cropped, and consequently on the principle just enunciated he may not be cropped on his days of mourning.');">¹</span> you are this implying that [the observance of] mourning obtains in the case of a minor, whereas it is taught: 'A minor's garment is rent out of grief of soul'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. infra 26h. It is done, not as an obligatory observance on the part of the child, but merely to deepen the poignancy of grief among the mourners by including the young, unknowing child in the sorrow.');">²</span>

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