Questions tagged [tzitzis]
Tzitzis or tzitzit are the fringes tied to the corners of four-cornered garments. For laws regarding those garments (also known as Tzitzis), see the [tallit-katan] tag.
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Is a garment with tzitzis that was specially made for a woman a Lo Yilbash
Can a woman wear a garment with tzitzis that was specifically made for a woman?
This article says that many poskim maintain that pants designed for women are okay for women to use. Can their reasoning ...
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Tekhelet hidden on purpose
I was recently told by someone that the sages hid the tekhelet on purpose because it was expensive and thus differentiated between poorer and richer Jews.
Are there any sources that back this claim?
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Where in clothing do Karaite Jews use their tzitziot? Do they use a Talit Katan?
Shalom! Where in clothing do Karaite Jews use their tzitziot? Do they use a Talit Katan?
I am not asking on how do they tie/braid tzitzit, because there is information online about that. I just don't ...
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Why are red tzitzit assur to Ashkenazi?
First question so pardon me. Will try to follow the rules.
Recently moved and got to a mostly ashkenazi shul and am sephardic. I understand Ashkenazim only wear white tzitzit as their minhag but I ...
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How to make the gaps in tzitzit knots according to BIH
Is there a clear authoritative source that discusses how exactly to tie the tzitzit according to the Ben Ish Hai?
He says to tie them 7, 8, 11, 13, and to make gaps between every three wraps.
I haven'...
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What is the smallest size for tallit kattan to say a beracha?
A similar question is asked here Is there a minimum size that a Tallis Kattan has to be? but slightly different and not with a fully comprehensive answer.
If I wanted to get a tallit kattan that I ...
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How did two different garments with corresponding berachos come to develop for the single mitzvah of tzitzis?
I don't know about other denominations but Ashkenazi Jews typically have a Tallis kattan which they make one beracha for and a Tallis gadol which has a different beracha made on it (if both are worn ...
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Can a frum, charedi woman wear tzitzit privately? What do major poskim say? [duplicate]
I’m asking this question sincerely, from a place of deep yirat Shamayim and a desire to grow closer to Hashem. This is not coming from a liberal or feminist place — chas v’shalom — but from a heart ...
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Does להתעטף cover טליתות קטנות if none are worn
Some have the minhag to refrain from making a bracha upon donning a טלית קטן when getting dressed in the morning, but to have it—and all טליתות קטנות that one might wear throughout the day—in mind ...
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Is colorful tzitzit even a thing?
There seems to be precedent for the idea that tzitzit may have another color than white (albeit not in the Ashkenazi minhag) [see this post]. But all Sepharadi people I know (most are from the Maghreb)...
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Wearing Tzitzis in front of a Rasha
There's a well-known Halacha not to wear one's Tzitzis out while in a graveyard, and there are multiple reasons given, one among them being that since the dead cannot do Mitzvos anymore, it's ...
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Is there any precedent for Ralbag's opinion that it is improper and perhaps forbidden to wear two pairs of tzitzit simultaneously?
Ralbag has an opinion I've not yet seen elsewhere that limits a person to one garment with tzitzit at a time.
(That's to say one may wear many four cornered garments at the same time that are ...
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If only two options are presented; a linen garment, or a cotton garment, which is the preferable candidate to have tzitzit?
According to the Moroccan tradition, what is the answer to the following question?
In a situation where one has kosher wool strings (to tie tzitzit lshem mitzvah), but has only either a cotton garment ...
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Can you put tzitzit in pockets? [closed]
I've started wearing a tallit katan recently, and I sometimes wear the tzitzit out but put them in the pockets. But I've never seen anyone wear it like that, I'm wondering if there is some halachic ...
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Embroidering wool tallis katan - should tzitzis be tied on after altering it, or could one do so to an existing garment that already has tzitzis on?
Question is what it says on the tin. Assuming that the thread is not shatnetz, and everything else is in order, etc, am I allowed to alter a tallis katan that already has tzitzis on it, or am I only ...
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