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When I told a recent customer we offer a variety of different tzitzit tying customs, he was taken by surprise. "I was not aware that Tzitzit could be tied using different standards," he wrote in an email. "I thought they were all the same – so now I've learned something new.  What are the differences?  Is there a tzitzit tying custom based on denomination - Orthodox or Conservative – or region of the world – Ashkenazi/Sephardic?" I would estimate that at least 60% of the world's tzitzit are tied according to the standard Ashkenazi custom. In  the U.S. that probably accounts for over 80%. The second most common are Sephardic, followed by Chabad and Yemenite/Rambam.

Techelet Tzitzit Tying

But techelet is a whole different ballgame. The white tzitzit tying customs were meant to fulfill most of the requirements stated in the Gemara that could still be fulfilled once techelet had fallen out of the picture. But for those who now wear techelet there are several tying customs. The Gemara states very clearly certain guidelines -- e.g. the first and last loops (or sets of loops) must be white and the total must be no less than 7 and no more than 13 -- so all techelet tzitzit tying customs fulfill these requirements in one way or another. The Ptil Tekhelet Association (which makes the techelet strings) recommends the Sefer Hachinuch tzitzit tying custom, and I think they recommend the Rambam for Sephardic Jews. There are Ashkenazim who seem to be drawn to the Rambam's tzitzit tying custom, either for aesthetic reasons or because of it's simplicity, I'm not sure.

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Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:31:20 -0700 Tzitzit in the IDF http://marilee32.posterous.com/tzitzit-in-the-idf http://marilee32.posterous.com/tzitzit-in-the-idf http://www.tallit-shop.com/?post_type=post&p=5338
Yeshiva Entire world News ran a small report on an IDF determination to halt delivering olive green tzitzit clothes at no charge for spiritual troopers. Audience submitted a variety of exciting remarks, which I would like to remark on listed here. Forgive me if I indulge in a little bit of editorializing. "A talis koton is supposed to be white in any case, to match the color of the [tzitzit] strings. This is in Shulchon Oruch. It is not a challenging and rapidly prerequisite, green is not possul, but it is the way it is supposed to be. So why would the [IDF] Rabbinate have promoted a green version as a substitute of insisting that white be allowed? What rational function does banning white serve?" Truly there is a rational function. If an IDF soldier is in the crosshairs of an enemy combatant's gun, G-d forbid, a little bit of white fabric will support the shooter just take purpose, and if he has not been noticed, an inch of white could make the variation. I know of elite IDF models that just take camouflage tactics quite severely for specific night functions. In other phrases, in specified situations putting on an olive green tzitzit garment genuinely is a make any difference of pikuach nefesh (daily life and loss of life). [caption id="attachment_5341" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Courtesy of American Close friends of the IDF Rabbinate"]An olive green tallit katan with white tzitzit[/caption] One particular may possibly say, "But if it genuinely is pikuach nefesh, then the tzitzit strings must not be white either." Yes, but you can constantly tuck in the tzitzit if needed, and a lot of Sephardic troopers hold their tzitzit tucked in to get started with. In accordance to one more remark posted, "Why do they need to have to shell out for the tzitzit? I just really do not get it. I really do not indicate nearly anything adverse here – uniform, weapons, military things very good – [but] spiritual articles or blog posts...?" I have two solutions for that: One particular is that considering that ostensibly the IDF is a Jewish military, supplying out tzitzit is flawlessly realistic. You could even argue that it is a ought to, and is element and parcel of outfitting a Jewish military. One particular commenter asked rhetorically, "So what else that is vital to the soldiers’ security are they contemplating of chopping? Access to IDF-supplied guns and ammunition?" Of class the up coming issue would be, "So why will not the IDF give kippahs?" For the duration of the IDF induction ceremony, every single soldier gets a Tanach (Druze troopers acquire a Koran), so it can make sensation to give the signifies to hold what that Tanach says a Jew must do. The 2nd response is that considering that obtaining an olive green tzitzit garment is rather hard, the military must just take treatment of it. And if the IDF is not successful ample to take care of the process, I know of an individual who could just take up the slack: Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Grossman of Migdal Ha'emek (a.k.a. The Disco Rabbi). Aish.com has an remarkable tale about how he was ready to fill in the logistical gap when the IDF fell small for the duration of the 2nd Lebanon War. (If you want to get a tallit katan in olive green with white tzitzit on the web, I will not at the moment offer them, but I come about to know that World of Judaica does.) One particular dilemma that nobody described is that despite the fact that olive green tzitzit clothes are offered, what is an IDF soldier to do if he is stringent to have on a wool tallit katan? This is rather widespread amid Sephardic troopers.

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Wed, 28 Mar 2012 06:01:46 -0700 Rainbow Tallit Comparison: Bnei Ohr vs. Joseph's Coat http://marilee32.posterous.com/rainbow-tallit-comparison-bnei-ohr-vs-josephs http://marilee32.posterous.com/rainbow-tallit-comparison-bnei-ohr-vs-josephs http://www.tallit-shop.com/?post_type=post&p=5278
A consumer lately asked me about the distinction in between the Bnei Ohr Tallit and the Joseph's Coat Tallit. They had been each impressed by the exact same tallit, initially created by Reb Zalman (Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalom see B’nei Or Tallis: From nineteen fifties Eyesight to Contemporary Actuality). Later on the idea of a rainbow tallit grew to become well-liked and it is generally referred to by its authentic title, Bnei Ohr (or Bnei Or), and is occasionally known as merely a "Rainbow Tallit." The Gabrieli edition is known as Joseph's Coat. [caption id="attachment_5280" align="alignright" width="one hundred fifty" caption="Mishkan Hatchelet's Bnei Ohr Tallit"]Bnei Ohr Tallit[/caption] The distinction in between the Bnei Ohr (Mishkan Hatchelet) and the Joseph's Coat (Gabrieli) is basically the distinction in between any regular tallit and the hand-woven talleisim Gabrieli generates. Each are one hundred% wool, but the Bnei Ohr is produced out of a restricted weave, while the Joseph's Coat is produced utilizing thicker yarn that provides it much more texture and bulk. Also, each the corners and atara (neckband) vary. The Bnei Ohr Tallit has the Tzitzit Blessing embroidered on the atara and a Luchos Habris routine on the corners, whilst the Joseph's Coat Tallit employs the rainbow stripe motif on each the atara and the corners. An additional distinction is that the Bnei Ohr arrives with two colour choices (white with red, orange, yellow and blue stripes or white with blue, purple, red and burgundy), whilst the Joseph's Coat arrives in 4 variations (white, black, grey or blue track record). Lastly, the sizing is a little bit various. In the slim dimensions, the Joseph's Coat Tallit is twenty x eighty inches, in contrast to the Bnei Ohr Tallit, which actions 24 x seventy two inches. Other dimensions also differ a little bit in between the two variations of the rainbow tallit. A thirty-2nd video clip on the Joseph's Coat Tallit:

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Wed, 28 Mar 2012 06:00:46 -0700 The Would-Be Sinner http://marilee32.posterous.com/the-would-be-sinner http://marilee32.posterous.com/the-would-be-sinner http://www.tallit-shop.com/?post_type=post&p=1771
The adhering to tale about a gentleman whose tzitzit help save him from sin is taken from Menachos 44a. After there was a gentleman who was constantly thorough to hold the mitzvah of tzitzit [i.e. tallit katan] appropriately. When he transpired to listen to about a prostitute in a faraway area abroad who billed four hundred zehuvim, he sent that sum and organized a day. When the set time arrived he arrived and sat at her doorway. The prostitute's assistant went within and instructed her mistress, who then instructed the assistant to demonstrate him in. The prostitute geared up 7 beds of silver and a single of gold. There ended up silver ladders connecting them, and a gold ladder primary to the uppermost mattress. She went up to the top rated mattress and sat there naked. He, way too, climbed up to the top rated mattress and sat there naked reverse her. Instantly his 4 tzitzits smacked him on the confront. He went straight down and sat on the flooring. She explained she would not depart him on your own right up until he unveiled what blemish heВ  experienced witnessed in her. "Never ever have I witnessed a female as lovely as you," he replied, "but Hashem our God commanded us to do a specified mitzvah acknowledged as tzitzit. The verse relevant to it states, 'I am Hashem your God' two times, training us that He exacts retribution and pays just wages. My tzitzits ended up like 4 witnesses versus me. " "I will not likely allow you go," she explained, "right up until you notify me your title, the title of your town, the title of your rabbi and the title of the beit midrash wherever you review." He wrote all the details straight down on a piece of paper and handed it to her. They parted. She then divided all her property: a single-3rd for the federal government [as a payoff so they would allow her to transform], a single-3rd for the very poor and a single-3rd she took with her.В  Arriving at the beit midrash of R' Chiya, she asked him to transform her to Judaism. "My daughter," he explained. "probably you have solid your eyes on [i.e. taken a liking] a single of the scholars?" She handed him the piece of paper, recounting the total tale guiding it. "Go accumulate your because of," he explained to her. And people identical sheets she experienced affreux to commit a transgression ended up utilised for a mitzvah as a substitute. This is an occasion of how often a single gets reward equally in This Entire world and the Entire world to arrive.

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Wed, 28 Mar 2012 05:59:45 -0700 Pele Yoetz on Tzitzit http://marilee32.posterous.com/pele-yoetz-on-tzitzit http://marilee32.posterous.com/pele-yoetz-on-tzitzit http://www.tallit-shop.com/?post_type=post&p=1736
The mitzvah of tzitzit is thought to be equal to all of the other commandments. Due to the fact we are not able to satisfy all of the 613 mitzvahs, when we use tzitzits, which are intended to remind us of the obligation to hold all of the commandments, it is thought to be as if we did in simple fact observe them. Even so, we have to bear this intention exclusively in head. For that reason, a single must be confident to constantly use a tallit katan and be confident that equally one's tallit katan and tallit gadol adhere to all of the relevant halachic demands. Additionally, a single must be confident to have out the precept of "zeh Eli ve'anveihu," i.e. to use an beautiful tallit in get to beautify the mitzvah. If a single is donning wonderful garments, even though the tallit is torn or worn, he shames and disgraces himself, equally in This Entire world and the Entire world to Arrive.

Wool Tallit and Wool Tallit Katan

A single must make a level of producing a tallit – equally the tallit gadol and the tallit katan – of ewe wool relatively than other materials, considering that a tallit manufactured from other materials only call for tzitzit due to the fact of the Rabbinical decree. This can be when compared to an individual who has an option to bring in one,000 gold coins and is content with five hundred. Boys must also be trained to hold this mitzvah by constantly donning a tallit katan underneath their garments. This will instill holiness in them, aiding them in mastering and trying to keep the Torah. The Holy Zohar hugely praises he who measures forth from his property in the early morning wrapped in tzitzit and crowned with tefillin. Joyful is he who can satisfy this. Tailored from the Pele Yoetz, by Rabbi Eliezer Papo (1785-1826)  of Bulgaria.

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Wed, 28 Mar 2012 05:57:38 -0700 Bnei Or Tallit http://marilee32.posterous.com/bnei-or-tallit http://marilee32.posterous.com/bnei-or-tallit http://www.tallit-shop.com/?post_type=page&p=4820

Bnei Or Tallit

Bnei Ohr Tallit The most famous rainbow tallit is the Bnei Or Tallit, which has an entire legend to its origins. A blue version of the Bnei Ohr is also available, with a combination of blue, aqua, purple and red stripes.

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Wed, 28 Mar 2012 05:55:26 -0700 Tefillin and the Electricity of Ritual http://marilee32.posterous.com/tefillin-and-the-electricity-of-ritual http://marilee32.posterous.com/tefillin-and-the-electricity-of-ritual http://www.tallit-shop.com/?post_type=post&p=5318
Tefillin can be an really strong resource utilised to connect to Our Father in Heaven and bind ourselves to him, human body, head and soul. But however, a lot of of us uncover it hard to get inspiration when we lay our tefillin every single day, and genuinely assume about what we are undertaking.

When I lay my tefillin every single early morning...

"I wake up to an inbox entire of dozens of email messages, world-wide news demanding response, and a everyday agenda triple the measurement of what will confirm achievable." writesВ Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz in the Jewish Journal. "How am I to pause to switch inward? When I put on my tefillin every single early morning, I take into account what I need to have to turn into liberated from in get to entirely return in servitude back to my highest callings. The straps bind me to that mission." "The threat in ritual is that one particular can use the electricity of the composition to keep away from internalization. One particular can sit shiva as their act of mourning nevertheless never ever actually embrace the grief and loss. One particular could embrace kashrut nevertheless never ever find the deeper spiritual and moral factors to the ritual...Ritual, at its worst, distracts us from true daily life. But at its finest, ritual can increase our mindfulness with which we stay. "I just lately listened to Jonathan Safran Foer converse about the 'room servicing of daily life,' how the inclination right now is to desire that other folks do factors for us then we do them for ourselves..."

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Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:51:38 -0700 Tefillin and mezuzah skilled Rabbi Shmuel Rosenfeld http://marilee32.posterous.com/tefillin-and-mezuzah-skilled-rabbi-shmuel-ros http://marilee32.posterous.com/tefillin-and-mezuzah-skilled-rabbi-shmuel-ros http://www.tallit-shop.com/?post_type=page&p=3775
Born in Chicago and lifted in New York, Rabbi Shmuel Rosenfeld examined at Ner Yisrael Yeshiva in Baltimore and at Emek Halacha in Brooklyn, wherever he been given smicha, and has examined underneath Torah luminary Rabbi Tuvia Goldstein. He manufactured aliya in 1980 and shortly commenced doing work at a tefillin company in Beit El, wherever he was sooner or later promoted to creation supervisor.

22 several years knowledge marketing good quality tefillin and mezuzahs

Rabbi Rosenfeld has been marketing good quality tefillin and mezuzah scrolls independently for 22 several years. Sofrim consistently occur to him to demonstrate him the good quality of their operate. With these kinds of huge knowledge in sofrus, he is familiar with particularly how considerably their amount of producing is value, which translates into exceptional price for his buyers. "I will not just look at a number of phrases," he claims. "I seem for consistency through. If he is reasonably new to sofrus, but his producing impresses me, I may possibly spend in him. I assess his operate intently and evaluate no matter whether he can excellent his producing."

Good quality tefillin and mezuzahs, in addition price

Rabbi Rosenfeld's skilled scrutiny signifies the conclude buyer is finding the finest good quality for his income, at whichever amount of hiddur he chooses – Tefillin Peshutim, Tefillin Peshutim Mehudarim or Tefillin Gassot. The mezuzah scrolls he supplies also occur in a variety of stages of hiddur. Rabbi Rosenfeld's tefillin and mezuzah scrolls are qualified by Rabbi Shammai Gross, dayan of Belz, and Rav Mordechai Friedlander, head of Mishmeret HaStam and  a single of the world's primary poskim on STaM (producing Sefer Torah, Tefillin and Mezuzahs).

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Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:10:27 -0700 Tzitzit: Connecting Heaven and Earth http://marilee32.posterous.com/tzitzit-connecting-heaven-and-earth-12809 http://marilee32.posterous.com/tzitzit-connecting-heaven-and-earth-12809 http://www.tallit-shop.com/?post_type=post&p=364
The indicating of tzitzit is about connecting Shamayim (Heaven) and eretz (earth), revealing to us the non secular likely in the entire world all around us.

Indicating of Tzitzit

The process of transforming all of our routines into non secular pursuits may possibly seem to be remote and summary. In the course of the day we come across ourselves in a variety of spots and conditions that seem to be considerably from the Divine Existence.  It can be quite hard to recognize – and even more challenging to set into follow – the notion that we can constantly hook up to Shamayim. That is the place the mitzvah of tzitzit happens in. It permits us to unify Shamayim and eretz. The spot of the tzitzit on all 4 corners of the garment connects the 4 corners of the Earth, and when we maintain all 4 tzitzit in our arms we are in fact unifying the total universe, writes Rabbi Shmuel Zucker. The sin of Adam and Eve induced nitzutzot (sparks of holiness) to drop, mixing very good and evil.  Since then our divine process has been to rescue the holy sparks that fell and ended up concealed in the entire world.  We have to elevate them, elevating them again to their root, provides Rabbi Zucker.  Every put we’re in and any exam we are confronted with is an option to come across these sparks – the captured parts of Heaven – and rescue them by acting spiritually, transforming the put or exam a single is confronted with into a non secular knowledge. A man or woman ought to constantly hold in head that God set him in the predicament he’s in, supplying him an option to assume and act from a non secular standpoint.  No a single was set there to give up or to fall short, but to make the predicament into a divine provider and elevate the trapped holiness again to its root.  By undertaking this, a single can alter any put, time or predicament into a motor vehicle for serving God. The divine aid for acting and currently being non secular, thus turning every single put and predicament into an option for divine provider by rescuing its holy spark – happens from tzitzit.  Tzitzit will help us act spiritually and come across spirituality in every single predicament, thus rescuing these holy sparks and returning them to their roots. Even when a man or woman is on the verge of committing an aveira (transgression), writes Rabbi Zucker, the mitzvah of tzitzit presents him the energy to come across and recuperate the nitzutz, and even alter a likely aveira into a optimistic act. Far more content on tzitzit and the indicating of tzitzit: Beyond the Listed here and Now by Dan Slobodkin Do-It-By yourself Tzitzit Tying A Tallit in Auschwitz The Wall is Wailing by Rabbi Avi Shafran

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Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:06:27 -0700 The Coloration Techelet http://marilee32.posterous.com/the-coloration-techelet http://marilee32.posterous.com/the-coloration-techelet http://www.tallit-shop.com/?post_type=post&p=2302
by Jonah Mandel The Jerusalem Article Not very azure, far more of a midnight blue. That is evidently the genuine coloration of the biblical techelet, in accordance to Prof. Zvi Koren, who spoke this week at the Shenkar College’s Intercontinental Edelstein Coloration Symposium.

Techelet: Coloration of a Crystal clear Blue Sky

Techelet is the coloration that was utilised to dye the coat of the large priests in the time of the temples, as effectively as the strings hooked up to the corners of men’s clothes “so that they may possibly be witnessed and remind you of God’s instructions,” as the Torah states. In present day Hebrew application, techelet is the coloration of a crystal clear sky in the daytime. But the examination of a modest piece of dyed cloth that archeologist Yigal Yadin located at Masada in the sixties, dated to the very first century BCE, was what Koren just lately utilised to establish not only the genuine hue of techelet, but also the chemical breakdown that authorized him to build irrevocably that the resource of this historic dye was without a doubt the Murex trunculus snail. Even so, Koren stressed that there ended up diverse varieties of Murex trunculus.

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Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:04:25 -0700 Bar Mitzvah Tallit Measurements http://marilee32.posterous.com/bar-mitzvah-tallit-measurements http://marilee32.posterous.com/bar-mitzvah-tallit-measurements http://www.tallit-shop.com/?post_type=post&p=5175
What is the appropriate measurement for a bar mitzvah boy? That relies upon mainly on your congregation.

Tallit Measurement eighteen, Measurement 24 and Measurement 36

In most Reform congregations, men and women have on the variety of tallit that sits on the shoulders and hangs in entrance, but does not address the again. This happens in Measurement eighteen, Measurement 24 and Measurement 36. People quantities refer to the width. A Measurement eighteen is slender, just eighteen inches vast, a Measurement 24 is medium and a Measurement 36 is vast. The Measurement 36 can be cumbersome on a boy. If he is even now small, say underneath five toes tall, he'll need to have a personalized measurement. We get this variety of ask for rather usually, and have many possibilities offered.

Entire-Measurement Tallit: Measurement forty five, Measurement fifty, Measurement fifty five, Measurement sixty

In some Conservation and all Orthodox congregations, men and women have on a entire-measurement tallit, put on in the classic vogue -- about the shoulders, with the corners pulled down the entrance and two-thirds of the tallit covering the again and hanging down to the midsection (or often even down to the legs). If you have on the tallit this way, you may want a Measurement forty five, Measurement fifty, Measurement fifty five or Measurement sixty, relying on the bar mitzvah boy's top. (Refer to this size desk.) Of system the finest assistance is to have the younger gentleman try out on diverse tallit measurements and make a decision which performs finest for him. If you might be not sure which measurement a presented tallit is, measure it from top rated to bottom (from the edge with the neckband to the edge reverse it that hangs down in again). If it truly is all around 24 inches, it truly is a Measurement 24, if it truly is all around 36 inches it truly is a Measurement 36, forty five inches is a Measurement forty five, and many others.

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Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:02:19 -0700 four Factors to Choose for a Wool Tallit Katan http://marilee32.posterous.com/four-factors-to-choose-for-a-wool-tallit-kata http://marilee32.posterous.com/four-factors-to-choose-for-a-wool-tallit-kata http://www.tallit-shop.com/?post_type=post&p=2937
When you set out to purchase a tallit katan the 1st choice to make is the kind of material you want to put on: wool, cotton or a cotton/artificial mix.

Wool Tzitzit - No Sweat

Even though numerous tzitzit wearers function up a sweat just listening to the phrase "wool," think about the subsequent checklist of property:
  • Wool is a great insulator in the winter season.
  • Wool wicks humidity absent from the pores and skin, retaining the wearer dryer when perspiring and cooler when scorching.
  • Wool is sturdy and versatile. It can be bent twenty,000 occasions with out breaking, whilst cotton breaks following three,000 bends.
  • Wool clothes do not soil effortlessly and resist grease and oils.
Wool Tallit KatanThe Shulchan Aruch states that only a wool garment is needed to have tzitzits in accordance to Torah legislation, whilst other materials should have tzitzits primarily based on a Rabbinical decree. Most Sephardic Jews adhere to this viewpoint and the Mishnah Brurah suggests it for Ashkenazim as nicely.

Wool Tallit Katan Provides Worth

Even though a wool tallit katan expenses much more than a cotton tallit katan, all of these factors might make it extremely really worth the cash. It will final lengthier, tear much less and can be worn all through the yr. And most essential of all, unless of course you occur to adhere to the viewpoint of the Chazon Ish or the Vilna Gaon, wool is the material of option in accordance to halacha.

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Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:00:21 -0700 Handmade Tallit - Four Israeli Tallit Designers http://marilee32.posterous.com/handmade-tallit-four-israeli-tallit-designers http://marilee32.posterous.com/handmade-tallit-four-israeli-tallit-designers http://www.tallit-shop.com/?post_type=post&p=4109
Tallit buyers, for the most part, can be divided into two kinds of people: those in the market for a traditional tallit and people who prefer a modern look. If you are the latter type, chances are you have no need for a handmade tallit, but simply need to find a quality wool black-on-white tallit. But for those in the market for a modern tallit, the options are very broad in terms of fabric, colors, styles and prices. Sizing Most handmade tallits are sold as sets, with a matching bag and kippah included. The most common sizes are 20 x 80 inches, which is worn hanging down in front, and 50 x 80 inches (or 60 x 80 inches), which covers the back as well. Fabric Wool has a classic look and is the fabric of choice from a halachic perspective. Cotton is a good alternative for those allergic to wool. Silk provides greater detail and higher sheen than wool. Colors Traditionally tallits are made with a white base. Galilee Silks (don't let the name fool you –- they make mostly wool tallits) starts with a white wool tallit and adds tastefully designed ornamentation and embroidery work to create a beautiful atara (neckband) with matching corners. Galilee Silks tallits are handcrafted in northern Israel at a Judaica textile studio headed by Shlomit Azati. [caption id="attachment_4112" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Gabrieli"]Gabrieli Handmade Tallit[/caption] Gabrieli is among the leaders in the use of vibrant base colors, so if you would like a bold red or blue tallit, Gabrieli Hand Weaving is a good place to start. The world-famous Gabrieli tallit has been made in Israel on hand looms for over four decades. [caption id="attachment_4114" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Weaving Creation"]Handmade Tallit [/caption] Located in the Old City of Jerusalem, Weaving Creation makes exquisite hand-woven tallits using a luxurious cotton yarn. They specializing in bringing together a unique set of colors chosen by the customer. Yair Emanuel Judaica, which is based in Jerusalem, is notable for their use of geometry. Note that they work in cotton and silk, but not wool. Their tallits are generally thin and lightweight. Yair Emanuel's style incorporates a fusion of traditional motifs influenced by oriental and modern art. Designed and crafted at his Jerusalem studio, the Emanuel tallit features a unique combination of old and new, using vivid color schemes.

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Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:59:13 -0700 Sudilkov: The Tallis Shtetl http://marilee32.posterous.com/sudilkov-the-tallis-shtetl http://marilee32.posterous.com/sudilkov-the-tallis-shtetl http://www.tallit-shop.com/?post_type=post&p=2174
Sudilkov, a tiny town in Ukraine, is reportedly the shtetl Stephen Spielberg's loved ones hail from. It has a historical past of Jewish settlement reaching again to the 17th century, but nowadays there are no Jews there and practically no trace of the Jewish presence continues to be. The Jews of Sudilkov have been renown for the tallits they created. "Talleisim of Sudilkov have been identified internationally and their creation was the principal resource of earnings for the townspeople. The folks of Sudilkov considered that any person who bore the loved ones identify Talisman or Talismacher undoubtedly could trace their origin to Sudilkov. The silk and wool threads have been brought from Lodz and in the neighborhood workshops, expert craftsmen wove the talleisim. Traveling salesmen marketed their solution in all the Jewish communities the two around and considerably." Quoted from Yalkut Volhynia, 1948

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Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:58:14 -0700 Tzitzit and Yarmulke Lead to Firing in Dearborn, Michigan http://marilee32.posterous.com/tzitzit-and-yarmulke-lead-to-firing-in-dearbo http://marilee32.posterous.com/tzitzit-and-yarmulke-lead-to-firing-in-dearbo http://www.tallit-shop.com/?post_type=post&p=5177
A dentist in Dearborn, Michigan says his occupation dismissal was based mostly on anti-Semitism. In a federal match, Dr. Mark Ellis alleged he was advised not to dress in a yarmulke or tzitzit although on the occupation at Midwestern Dental of Dearborn, in which he was a dental manager, "given that the business office was positioned in Dearborn with a huge percentage of Arabic sufferers," according to a report in The Detroit News. In the match Ellis claimed the organization "permitted Muslim dentists to dress in head covering or other apparel dictated by their religious beliefs," but did not want him to come to perform putting on tzitzit or a kippah. Ellis argued that his civil rights have been violated since he was discriminated towards for his religion. Ellis also alleged he asked his boss to modify his Friday perform schedule so he could arrive residence just before dark. The "defendant reluctantly allowed plaintiff to leave early on Friday," Ellis mentioned, "but continually questioned, ridiculed and harassed him about the legitimacy of his beliefs." Meanwhile Muslim dentists have been allowed "an added hour at lunch to attend prayers at a neighborhood mosque."  

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Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:56:05 -0700 Talitania Compared to Mishkan Hatchelet http://marilee32.posterous.com/talitania-compared-to-mishkan-hatchelet http://marilee32.posterous.com/talitania-compared-to-mishkan-hatchelet http://www.tallit-shop.com/?post_type=post&p=5218
Allow me begin off by declaring I am partial to Mishkan Hatchelet, simply because I function carefully with 1 of their distributors (a 2nd-era Mishkan Hatchelet distributor!) and simply because all of the conventional wool tallits I promote are produced by Mishkan Hatchelet.

Mishkan Hatchelet and Talitania: Competing tooth and nail

Right here in Israel the leading two tallit makers are Talitania and Mishkan Hatchelet. When 1 of them arrives out with a new kind of tallit, the other arrives out with an imitation. Final week I was in 1 of the top tallit shops in Jerusalem. They promote each Talitania and Mishkan, so I asked them how the two tallit makers evaluate. The individual I spoke, a tallit business veteran, claimed that as a common rule, Talitania is more powerful and Mishkan has much better finishing function. Whether or not that is correct I cannot say. An additional tallit business expert informed me that if you purchase a regular tallit, the Prima A.A. produced by Mishkan Hatchelet has a tighter weave than the Talitania counterpart. My comprehending is that in common the distinction in high quality in between the two businesses is insignificant. [caption id="attachment_5233" align="alignright" width="one hundred fifty" caption="Chatanim"]Chatanim Tallit by Mishkan Hatchelet[/caption]

Purchasing a Traditional Tallit: Prima A.A., Chatanim, Hamefoar and Much more

As lengthy as I talked about the Prima A.A. Tallit, allow me include a couple of phrases to assist out numerous of my clients who are bewildered by the traditional tallit choice I provide. If you want to purchase a conventional wool tallit, with black stripes (or white with white stripes), they might all appear the exact same on-line. But the reality is that even if you had been searching a tallit store and searching at the tallitot up near and individual, numerous of them would nonetheless appear extremely a lot alike. When you go up from Prima A.A. to Chatanim, you are having to pay for not so a lot for a thicker tallit, but for a denser tallit, i.e. a denser weave. That tends to make it most likely to final lengthier and it will dangle a large straighter. The Chatanim Tallit also has a couple of additional functions: stiffened corners to maintain the tzitzit from sliding about the corner (they are intended to remain on the aspect with the fringe), stain resistant material, and material handled to remain white more than time. Tallit HamefoarThe atara and the striping on the Prima A.A. Tallit and the Chatanim Tallit are similar. The Prima A.A. truly is a great tallit, but if you want a no-compromise tallit for a bar mitzvah boy, a chassan – or your self – the Chatanim is the way to go. For these searching for a non-slip tallit, Mishkan Hatchelet has 3 designs: Pe'er, Hamefoar and Tashbetz. The Pe'er is the non-slip equal of the Prima A.A. and Hamefoar is the non-slip equal of the Chatanim. The Tashbetz Tallit is produced of a light-weight material and if you appear at it up near you will discover it functions a box-like weave the maintain the tallit in location.

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Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:53:59 -0700 Heritage of the Yemenite Tallit http://marilee32.posterous.com/heritage-of-the-yemenite-tallit http://marilee32.posterous.com/heritage-of-the-yemenite-tallit http://www.tallit-shop.com/?post_type=post&p=1954
In our day, the use of the tallit is mainly confined to moments of prayer. Jewish resources point out that the tallit was at first manufactured of wool and that the man or woman putting on it could take care of it as an standard garment for a variety of purposes – bundling up his wares in it or employing it to address himself or the mattress he was lying on. Dependent on a responsum published by the Rambam, it seems that the personalized for the duration of his time was to have on a tallit in the course of the day. Meanwhile Rabbi Petachia of Regensburg, who visited the East in the 12th century, reveals that the Jews of Baghdad "go about in shawls and wrapped up in a tallit of wool, with tzitzits." In accordance to Dr. Aaron Gimani of Bar-Ilan College, the restriction of the tallit to the early morning prayers and the growth of the tallit katan progressed as Jews commenced to adopt far more mainstream social mores.

Yemenite Tallit: The Shamlei

[caption id="attachment_3920" align="alignright" width="300" caption="R' Explained Kachazam wrapped in a shamlei tallith in Yemen. Click on on picture to enlarge"]Black Tallit - Shamlei[/caption] To this day the Yemenite tallit demonstrates specified distinctions that set it apart from the tallitot put on in other areas of the entire world. Rabbi Jacob Sapir, an emissary for spiritual companies in Israel who visited Yemen in 1859, wrote that "God-fearing guys, academics of the men and women, will have on one more garment, with 4 corners and bearing tzitzits, underneath their higher garment and about their backs, from above – the shamlei (so it is also named in Arabic), black or with black and white stripes, manufactured of thick wool, sq., with 4 corners, with which they address their head and human body all the way down, and on the 4 corners they dangle tzitzits, in accordance to the regulation, and they address by themselves with the shamlei in the course of the day... at night time way too they address by themselves with it, or use it to address the mattress on which they lie. And it will be utilised for every single process men and women have factors in it when they go acquiring and marketing in the market place, or they use it to have wooden."

Yemenite Tzitzit Tying Personalized

A lot of Yemenite Jews to this day tie the tzitzit with 7 chulyot ("joints") not separated by any knots. Immediately after the cords have been inserted into the hole at the corner of the tallit, a double knot is manufactured. The longest cord is wound about three moments all around the other cords to sort the very first joint. A modest place is left and the cord is wound all around one more about three moments. The approach carries on right up until the tzitzit has 7 joints with no intermediate knots. (Some have a personalized of producing thirteen joints.) Rabbi Joseph Kafich responses that this continues to be the Yemenite tzitzit tying personalized to the existing. Producing on Yemenite Jewish customs, Rabbi Isaac Ratzaby remarks, "At any fee, it would seem to be that a crystal clear desire must be presented to our personalized, which seems explicitly in the Talmud, while other techniques ended up presented with no any equivalent resource." Nevertheless in Israel the historic Yemenite tzitzit tying custom has been mainly subsumed.

The Yemenite Tallit Katan

As for the tallit katan, it was put on only by some Yemenite sages, but after the Yemenite Jewish group had immigrated to Israel, their personalized modified to conform to that of their brethren, who wore tzitzit all day, every single day. Rabbi Shalom Isaac Halevi, who arrived to Israel from Yemen in 1923, acknowleded that only a modest minority wore a tallit katan in Yemen, "but this does not suggest that Yemenite Jews assumed it ample to have on a tallit for the duration of prayer only. The approved personalized is that every single Yemenite Jewish male in Yemen would not action out the doorway of his property except he had a tallit on his shoulders, and this was the tallit that he wrapped all around [himself] in the synagogue for the duration of prayer." He goes on to remark that Yemenite Jews dwelling in Israel must stick to the personalized of putting on a tallit katan in the course of the day.

Photos of classic Yemenite tallit>>

Modern-day Yemenite tallit>>

In our day, the use of the tallit(prayer-shawl) is mainly confined to moments of prayer. Jewish resources point out that the tallit was at first manufactured of wool and that the man or woman putting on it could take care of it as an standard garment for a variety of uses-- bundling up his wares in it or employing it to address himself or the mattress he was lying on. Dependent on a responsum published by the Rambam(Maimonides--1135-1204) it seems that the personalized for the duration of his time was to have on a tallit in the course of the day. Meanwhile Rabbi Petachia of Regensburg, who visited the East in the 12th century, reveals that the Jews of Baghdad "go about in shawls and wrapped up in a tallit of wool, with tzitzits." The restriction of the tallit to the early morning prayers and the growth of the tallit katan progressed as Jews commenced to adopt far more mainstream social mores. To this day the Yemenite tallit demonstrates specified distinctions that set it apart from the tallit prayer shawls put on in other areas of the entire world. Rabbi Jacob Sapir, an emissary for spiritual companies in Israel who visited Yemen in 1859, wrote that "God-fearing guys, academics of the men and women, will have on one more garment, with 4 corners and bearing tzitzits, underneath their higher garment and about their backs, from previously mentioned--the shamlei (so it is also named in Arabic), black or with black and white stripes, manufactured of thick wool, sq., with 4 corners, with which they address their head and human body all the way down, and on the 4 corners they dangle tzitzits, in accordance to the regulation, and they address by themselves with the shamlei in the course of the day ... at night time way too they address by themselves with it, or use it to address the mattress on which they lie. And it will be utilised for every single process men and women have factors in it when they go acquiring and marketing in the market place, or they use it to have wooden." A lot of Yemenite Jews to this day tie the tzitzit with 7 "joints" not separated by any knots. Immediately after the cords have been inserted into the hole at the corner of the tallit, a double knot is manufactured. The longest cord is wound about three moments all around the other cords to sort the very first joint. A modest place is left and the cord is wound all around one more about three moments. The approach carries on right up until the tzitzit has 7 joints with no intermediate knots. Rabbi Joseph Kafich responses that this continues to be the personalized to the existing. Producing on Yemenite Jewish customs, Rabbi Isaac Ratzaby remarks, "At any fee, it would seem to be that a crystal clear desire must be presented to our personalized, which seems explicitly in the Talmud, while other techniques ended up presented with no any equivalent resource." Nevertheless in Israel the historic Yemenite tzitzit tying custom has been mainly subsumed. As for the tallit katan, it was put on only by some Yemenite sages, but after the Yemenite group had immigrated to Israel their personalized modified to conform to that of their brethren. Rabbi Shalom Isaac Halevi, who arrived to Israel from Yemen in 1923, acknowleded that only a modest minority wore a tallit katan in Yemen, "but this does not suggest that Yemenite Jews assumed it ample to have on a tallit for the duration of prayer only. The approved personalized is that every single Yemenite Jewish male in Yemen would not action out the doorway of his property except he had a tallit on his shoulders, and this was the tallit that he wrapped all around [himself] in the synagogue for the duration of prayer." He goes on to remark that Yemenite Jews dwelling in Israel must stick to the personalized of putting on a tallit katan in the course of the day.In our day, the use of the tallit (prayer-shawl) is mainly confined to moments of prayer. Jewish resources point out that the tallit was at first manufactured of wool and that the man or woman putting on it could take care of it as an standard garment for a variety of uses-- bundling up his wares in it or employing it to address himself or the mattress he was lying on. Dependent on a responsum published by the Rambam(Maimonides--1135-1204) it seems that the personalized for the duration of his time was to have on a tallit in the course of the day. Meanwhile Rabbi Petachia of Regensburg, who visited the East in the 12th century, reveals that the Jews of Baghdad "go about in shawls and wrapped up in a tallit of wool, with tzitzits." The restriction of the tallit to the early morning prayers and the growth of the tallit katan progressed as Jews commenced to adopt far more mainstream social mores. To this day the Yemenite tallit demonstrates specified distinctions that set it apart from the tallit prayer shawls put on in other areas of the entire world. Rabbi Jacob Sapir, an emissary for reli

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Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:51:04 -0700 Bar Mitzvah Tallis, New York, circa 1940 http://marilee32.posterous.com/bar-mitzvah-tallis-new-york-circa-1940 http://marilee32.posterous.com/bar-mitzvah-tallis-new-york-circa-1940 http://www.tallit-shop.com/?post_type=post&p=1917
This photo was just as well irresistible. Boy in Tallis This photograph of an intrepid bar mitzvah boy wrapped in his bar mitzvah tallis is from the Matson Assortment. He is donning his bar mitzvah tallis according to the German (and Yemenite) custom made.

Recognize the signal in the qualifications with its anglicized Yiddish. The Hebrew letters examine:

FERLANKT EKSPERIENSD Dress MEKERINS TZU DRESSIS OIF A GUTTE SKVIRT MEKERIN

Presumably the photograph was taken in New York on the Decrease East Aspect, circa 1940.

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Fri, 09 Mar 2012 07:43:40 -0800 Tzitzit: Connecting Heaven and Earth http://marilee32.posterous.com/tzitzit-connecting-heaven-and-earth http://marilee32.posterous.com/tzitzit-connecting-heaven-and-earth http://www.tallit-shop.com/?post_type=post&p=364
The that means of tzitzit is about connecting Shamayim (Heaven) and eretz (earth), revealing to us the non secular prospective in the planet close to us. The process of transforming all of our pursuits into non secular pursuits could look remote and abstract. During the day we locate ourselves in different areas and scenarios that look significantly from the Divine Presence.  It can be really challenging to realize – and even more difficult to place into apply – the thought that we can often link to Shamayim. That’s in which the mitzvah of tzitzit will come in. It allows us to unify Shamayim and eretz. The area of the tzitzit on all four corners of the garment connects the four corners of the Earth, and when we hold all four tzitzit in our palms we are truly unifying the complete universe, writes Rabbi Shmuel Zucker. The sin of Adam and Eve triggered nitzutzot (sparks of holiness) to fall, mixing excellent and evil.  Since then our divine process has been to rescue the holy sparks that fell and have been hidden in the planet.  We have to elevate them, raising them back again to their root, adds Rabbi Zucker.  Every spot we’re in and any examination we are faced with is an possibility to locate these sparks – the captured items of Heaven – and rescue them by acting spiritually, transforming the spot or examination a single is faced with into a non secular encounter. A particular person need to often preserve in brain that God place him in the circumstance he’s in, offering him an possibility to feel and act from a non secular point of view.  No a single was place there to give up or to fail, but to make the circumstance into a divine support and elevate the trapped holiness back again to its root.  By carrying out this, a single can change any spot, time or circumstance into a car for serving God. The divine support for acting and getting non secular, therefore turning each spot and circumstance into an possibility for divine support by rescuing its holy spark – will come from tzitzit.  Tzitzit aids us act spiritually and locate spirituality in each circumstance, therefore rescuing these holy sparks and returning them to their roots. Even when a particular person is on the verge of committing an aveira (transgression), writes Rabbi Zucker, the mitzvah of tzitzit offers him the power to locate and recover the nitzutz, and even change a prospective aveira into a good act. A lot more content articles on tzitzit and the that means of tzitzit: Beyond the Below and Now by Dan Slobodkin Do-It-Oneself Tzitzit Tying A Tallit in Auschwitz The Wall is Wailing by Rabbi Avi Shafran

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Fri, 09 Mar 2012 07:41:34 -0800 A Tallit in Auschwitz http://marilee32.posterous.com/a-tallit-in-auschwitz http://marilee32.posterous.com/a-tallit-in-auschwitz http://www.tallit-shop.com/?post_type=post&p=349
Rabbi Tzvi Meisels is commonly acknowledged in Chicago for his attempts to reestablish the Orthodox group on the West Side, and later in Albany Park, dependent on the design of Eastern Europe’s pre-Entire world War II communities. Nevertheless his extraordinary attempts to uphold Judaism began prolonged ahead of on the other side of the Atlantic – and even inside Auschwitz. When he was summoned to report for a transportation to the notorious loss of life camp, Rabbi Meisels took only one particular possession: his tallit. On arrival in Auschwitz, he and his household had all of their earthly belongings taken absent, like Rabbi Meisel’s important tallit. But later he asked to operate in the warehouses, and there, confident ample, as he sorted by means of the piles of confiscated products, he arrived throughout his tallit. He then arrived up with a daring system to smuggle it out.  Rabbi Meisels managed to trim the significant prayer shawl and make it into a tallit katan, a 4-cornered garment that also has tzitzit, putting on it underneath his uniform. He ongoing to have on it every single day, even with the horrible threat ended up he to be learned. One particular day a Russian kapo doing work underneath the Nazis recognized that Rabbi Meisel's uniform appeared bulkier than common. He pulled up the hapless rabbi's shirt and learned the contraband – the tzitzit. Enraged, he commenced beating and cursing the Jew, demanding to know what he was putting on. Rabbi Meisels managed to stammer out the phrases, "A Gutt-kleid -- a Godly garment." This admission enraged the kapo even far more. He dragged the Jew to his bunker and proceeded to pummel him with no mercy. "You pig!" he screamed. "You have the audacity to notify me that you might be putting on a Godly garment? Wherever is your God in this entire world? What has He accomplished for you, leaving you at the mercy of this loss of life and destruction? How dare you notify me there is a God!" The kapo fell silent for a instant, and then he manufactured Rabbi Meisels an offer you. "I am supplying you one particular probability. If you can confirm to me that God exists, even with this hell we are enduring, then I will let you go. But if not, I will finish you off appropriate the following and now." Rabbi Meisels prayed silently for Divine direction, and then he explained: "Let me notify you a parable. There the moment was a competent surgeon who could complete remarkable functions that would heal men and women of the worst ailments. One particular day, a shoemaker was in the functioning theater, seeing the surgeon's every single move. The shoemaker viewed as he manufactured incisions into correctly intact skin. How ridiculous to minimize into nutritious tissue! he imagined. I only minimize into ruined leather when I need to have to repair service it! "'What a silly, inept surgeon!' the shoemaker concluded. "In this entire world, we are like that ignorant shoemaker," Rabbi Meisels concluded. "We will not have the slightest inkling of the approaches in which God runs the entire world. Often we see Him chopping into what seems to be nutritious tissue, and we are beside ourselves. But of study course He is familiar with infinitely far more than we could potentially know.”

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