Omitting Tachanun on the day of a Bar Mitzvah

Bar Mitzvah:

Some[1] communities are accustomed not to say Tachanun in the presence of a Bar Mitzvah boy on the day of his Bar Mitzvah, and so is the widespread Sefaradic custom in Eretz Yisrael. Other[2] communities are accustomed to recite Tachanun on the day of the Bar Mitzvah, and so is the widespread Ashkenazi customs and so is the Chabad custom.

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[1] Custom of Egyptian Jewry, brought in Nehar Mitzrayim, Ketzos Hashulchan 24 footnote 19; Yabia Omer 1/27; 4/14; Yechaveh Daas 2/15; Yaskil Avdi 2/15; Mishpitei Uziel 11; See Piskeiy Teshuvos 131/24 footnote 141

[2] Az Nidbaru 11/40; See Piskeiy Teshuvos ibid

Chassidic custom: Some Chassidic communities do not recite Tachanun on the day of the Bar Mitzvah. [Darkei Chaim Veshalom 192]

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