A baby born in the seventh month who remained in an incubator for a month and a half until he grew—when is his Bar Mitzvah age counted from: from the day he left the incubator, or from the day of his birth?
It is counted from the day he emerged from his mother’s womb. From then, his age for donning tefillin, reading from the Torah, and being counted toward a minyan is calculated. There is no distinction whether he was initially in oxygen support or in an incubator; it is always counted from the day of birth.
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