Tallit – Page 2 – Ben's Tallit Shop

Does a tallit (or tallit katan) have to be white?

Last week I was a bit surprised to get an inquiry asking whether we could provide someone with a camouflage tallit. Hi. I’m a soldier (U.S.) and was thinking of getting a tallis in a camouflage pattern, or that somehow incorporates it. I spoke with a frum chaplain and he knew of one supplier, but...

Tallit Square Patches for Do-It-Yourself Tallit Makers

Mothers and aunts and grandmothers making a tallit often come to our website to get outfitted with needed supplies. We have sold ataras and tzitzit strings for years, but recently it occurred to us that making tallit corner patches available might be a big help. We now have four or five different designs, and plans...

How to choose a Chabad tallis

Yesterday we had four separate Chabad tallis orders on our hands. It got quite confusing: a size 70, regular fabric, with cotton lining and no atara a size 60, nonslip fabric, silk lining, white atara a size 60, regular fabric, cotton lining, no atara a size 80, nonslip fabric, silk lining, no atara, techelet...

Tallit & tzitzit solutions for people with wool allergies

Every once in a while we get inquiries from people with wool allergies, or wool sensitivities. The good news is that one leading tzitzit maker in Jerusalem recently introduced a very high quality 100% cotton tallit in a few different designs, including a black-striped cotton tallit and a light blue-striped cotton. Today we received an...

Weekday Siddur without Additions

There's a siddur I'm waiting for someone to publish. A few years ago a friend of mine gave out mini siddurs to the guests at one of his son's bar mitzvah. He had formatted and printed them himself. The idea was that it contained only the weekday Shmoneh Esreh prayer, with none of the additional...

Fabulous S&P tallet

Ever since I first wrote about the S&P tallet three or four years ago, I've been searching for a weaver who could create a tallit that closely reflects the old tradition, and along the way, several people who adhere to S&P customs have sent me inquiries. Now, we've finally found it. If you're unfamiliar with the...

Lubavitch Tallis & Tzitzis Customs

Sometimes our customers assume that if they select the Chabad tzitzis tying option, the tallis katan or tallis gadol they order will have other Lubavitch features. Recently we had a customer who chose a standard traditional wool tallis, and then was very surprised when it came with an atara, as shown clearly in the product...

Why we wear a tallit during prayer

When I lived in Beitar Illit twenty years ago, I davened Shacharis for about six months in a shul called Kehilas Ashkenaz. In the Mizrach was a big tzaddik and a renowned posek by the name of Binyamin Zilber zt"l. On a few occasions I went to his house to ask him questions, so it...

Heirloom Tallis

I had mixed feelings about this idea. Certainly it's a striking email to read: I have a tallit of my late husband's that I wish to pass on to my son. My husband was a man of very small stature and, as a result, had a relatively small tallit. I was wondering if their was...

How to wear a tallit: Different customs

The blessing blessing recited before donning a tallit is not on the tallit, per se, but on the tzitzit, which are the essence of the mitzvah. The tallit is really just our way of fulfilling the mitzvah of wrapping ourselves in a tzitzit garment. The wording of the Tzitzit Blessing is ...l'hit'atef b'tzitzit, i.e....