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Cotton or wool & other tzitzit quandries

The first tzitzit I wore was a mesh tallit katan I bought at a little "dry goods" store open a few hours a week on a religious kibbutz near Beit She'an. It's hard for me to remember clearly that far back, but I'm pretty sure I switched to regular cotton a short time later. While...

Is your three-year-old boy ready for tzitzis?

I've been selling talleisim and tzitzis full time for seven or eight years. Our tzitzis are worn by thousands of Jews around the world -- from Portland and Seattle to Chicago, New York and Toronto. From Los Angeles to Denver, Dallas, Atlanta and Miami. From Rome and Madrid to London, Berlin, Amsterdam and Stockholm....

Lightweight Tallit Katan

We often get customers who don't want to budge from wearing a wool tallit katan, but want it as cool as possible for summer use. Since summer is now right around the corner, we decided to put several wool tzitzit garments on the scale and see how they compare. Personally, during the hot summer months...

Assembling Reminders

The following article was written by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks and is republished here with permission. To read more articles from Rabbi Sacks, visit the website www.rabbisacks.org You are driving ever so slightly above the speed limit. You see a police car in your rear view mirror. You slow down. You know perfectly well that it is...

Yair Emanuel challah covers collection

We just added a dozen fabulous and very affordable challah covers designed by Yair Emanuel, who is known for his use of vibrant colors and bold motifs, including Jerusalem scenes, pomegranate vines, patchwork patterns and floral designs. My wife is fond of the Jerusalem motifs, and the Jerusalem arch design (shown right) is indeed quite...

Tying tzitzit before conversion

Sometimes my 12-year-old son ties his own tzitzit. He now needs some new tzitzit, but because he's 12 years and 11 months old, I did the tying myself because if a 12-year-old ties tzitzit for himself, according to most opinions that's fine, but he may not be able to wear those tzitzit once he's...

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...

Who does the tzitzit tying?

We receive several inquiries per day. Most of them are for very basic information that customers probably didn't notice is available in the various online resources provided on our webstore. But we also receive specific questions not addressed already. Today we received the following inquiry: I noticed you offer variations for the tzitzit tying; do...

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