June 2013 – Ben's Tallit Shop

Tallit Buying Tips: Colors, Fabric, Sizing & Tzitzit

When I was growing up there was just one type of tallit in shul, white with black stripes, but later I began to see silver or gold pinstripes appear between the black bands of the traditional wool design, and the occasional blue-striped tallit. Today's prospective tallit buyer has a broad spectrum of tallitot to choose...

PerfTzit for Men and Boys

For centuries, Jews who sought to keep the mitzvah of tzitzit all day wore an untailored tallit katan garment, which is simply a rectangular fabric cut with an opening in the center for the head and a hole on each corner for the tzitzit strings. Made of either cotton or wool, a tallit katan...

Undershirt Tzitzit and Shirt Tzitzit Designs

For centuries, Jews who sought to keep the mitzvah of tzitzit all day wore an untailored tallit katan garment, which is simply a rectangular fabric cut with a hole in the center for the head and a hole on each corner for the tzitzit strings. Made of either cotton or wool, a tallit katan...

NeaTzit, TzitzShirt and Sport Tzitzit

For hundreds of years, or perhaps even thousands, Jews who wanted to fulfill the mitzvah of tzitzit all day wore an untailored tallit katan, which is essentially just a rectangular piece of fabric with a hole in the center for the head and a hole on each corner for the tzitzit strings. Made of...

Never Fear! Tzitzit Tying Made Easy

Periodically I get customers who want to send me a tallit for repair work on the tzitzit. Bad idea! The last time someone did that Israel Customs decided to charge NIS 131 and it dragged on for weeks. The tzitzit on one of the corners needs to be replaced. And in his case it was...

Tallit in Teaneck

For no known reason we've gotten a flurry of orders from Teaneck, New Jersey. Is this one of those mysterious flukes of nature in the Google search engine? Has Ben's Tallit Shop become the talk of the town outside of every shul when people gather after tefillahs? If any tallit buyers or tallit shoppers from...

Kosher Tefillin Gassot

Recently I got a call from the U.S. from a young man you was shopping for kosher tefillin gassot. He said he was interested in buying from us, but was a bit wary because our prices were lower than those of many of our competitors. He had a number of questions to ask about...