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Product Review: Tashbetz Tallit vs. Beit Yosef

Prospective tallit buyers looking for a white-striped tallit are often a bit overwhelmed by the possibilities. When shopping online, one white-on-white tallit looks pretty much like the next. A customer thinking of buying the Beit Yosef Hamefoar Tallit sent in a note asking us the following: Thank you for the quick response! I know the Beit...

Tallis Hamefoar: Unsurpassed quality and comfort

A top-of-the-line wool tallit made in Israel, the Tallis Hamefoar features a luxurious, nonslip weave to help the tallis stay in place on your shoulders. » Soft, textured fabric » Stiff wool corners so tzitzis hang alongside corners The Tallis Hamefoar is an exceptionally comfortable nonslip tallis – superb quality tallit at an unbeatable price. Size 60 (140...

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...

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...

Ultimate Sephardic talit: Yosef’s pick

A colleague of mine, Yosef, who lives and works in Jerusalem, has been in the talit business for 25 years. He deals with both Mishkan Hatchelet and Talitnia – Israel's leading tallit makers – so he's just the right person to ask for an objective comparison. Malchut Tallit Yesterday I spoke to him about two...

Bar Mitzvah Planning – Tallit & Tefillin

If you're starting to look for a bar mitzvah tallit and tefillin, hopefully you still have plenty of time until the bar mitzvah. From my experience there are two types of parents: the type who start looking for a tallit and tefillin two or three months before the bar mitzvah, and others who start...

Tallit Care and Cleaning

We recently received the following inquiry from a tallit buyer: The tallit arrived today! Thanks much! May I launder it? Hot/cold? Machine dry ok? Please advise. Almost all of the traditional tallits we sell are 100% wool, therefore they cannot go into a washing machine at all. Most people recommend they be dry cleaned. Make sure...

Chabad Tallis and Tzitzis: What Sets Them Apart

Chabad has a propensity for doing things their own way, and the Chabad tallis and Chabad tzitzis are no exception. The Chabad tallis has a unique, elaborate striping pattern and a second hole on each corner. The tzitzis tying method employs a very creative innovation of inserting the shamash through the second hole, which...

Sizing a Traditional Tallit: Size 55, Size 60 or Size 70?

A former customer recently contacted me, saying someone in his congregation wants a tallit just like his, but needs my input on the sizing. He wrote: Hi. I'd like to order another tallit with techeilet please All white Size 60 (the person is five foot eleven ... Is that the right size for him?) Tied according to the...