We get somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,500 inquiries a year. The vast majority cover issues that are fairly routine: availability, tallit sizing questions, questions about tallit stripes, letter embroidery, turnaround time, etc. But this morning, in my email box, was a simple inquiry I've never received before. I would like to purchase a man's tallit that is either...

Can a woman wear a tallit or observe the mitzvah of tzitzit? Many people have delved into this question, and I've found that a lot of them lack a clear understanding of a key term used in the discussion of the relevant halacha: "yehora." In the Shulchan Aruch O.C. 17, 2 the Rema, whose emendations...

We often hear stories from customers about difficulties they experienced ordering from the major online Judaica vendors. Today we received an order from a customer from Coral Gables, Florida who added the following tallit horror story to the comments field: I received the worst service from  Judaica. I first ordered one tallit that a month...

In the five years since this blog was started I've refrained from politics entirely, but I think I'm going to chime in on the IDF beard controversy. It's been a long time since I was a rank-and-file soldier, but I was just discharged from reserve duty a few years ago, so I think most of...

This week I picked up a Chatanim Tallit from one of the Jerusalem-based distributors I work with. "You're going to want to take the Chatanim off your webstore," he advised me. "Mishkan Hatchelet is set to discontinue it." I was floored. How could they take the Chatanim Tallit off their product line? The Chatanim has...

Tallit sizing can be a complicated affair, especially if you are trying to figure out sizing online. This week we received an inquiry from a father in Chicago buying tallits for his two sons. Trying to determine size of Tallit for my two oldest sons. They are uncomfortable using full size Talletim, of course, and I...