February 2013 – Ben's Tallit Shop

Tallit & Tzitzit

I recently received an interesting inquiry from a prospective customer. I'm not 100% sure what he meant, but I decided to write a detailed response that covers several points related to his question on tallit and tzitzit. His brief question was as follows: I just wondered if the tallit and tzitzits you sell are of...

Tzitzit strings…pre-tied and tzitzit made of colored yarn?

If you do a Google search for the word "tzitzit," some of the top-ranking websites you see are maintained by Christians. We recently received the following email from a woman in the state of Washington: I see, while browsing on the Web, many tzitzit made from colored cotton yarns, including beads, and already tied, just...

Yemenite Tzitzit

When I first decided to learn how to tie Yemenite tzitzit, it wasn't easy. The online videos I watched were very hard to follow, so I went to a local Yemenite Jew and he taught me very patiently, but I didn't really get the hang of it. Then I went to an Ashkenazi yeshiva...