Upsherin

Chalaka (or Chalakka, Hebrew חלאקה ) is the name of a Hasidic and Sephardic Jews in ceremony on Lag baomer: On this day the sons, who are only three years old, according to Meron be brought ( in Safed), and they are here to the first time in known as " Chalaka " ceremony hair cut ( Yiddish: " Opscheren ," more and more the term Upsherin prevails ).

On this day, the child's head is the first time covered with a kippah, and you pull him for the first time a small prayer shawl ( tallit katan ) to.