Tzitzit – Page 6 – Ben's Tallit Shop

Ptil Tekhelet Tzitzit: Sephardic Tying

A fairly significant number of our tallit and tallit katan customers who select Ptil Tekhelet tzitzit want us to tie them according to the Sephardic custom. For example, this week we received the following inquiry from a prospective techelet buyer in the US: I am looking at new Tallit Gadol. In the past I have...

Techelet Debate: Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan chimes in 3 decades ago

When it comes to the raging debate over whether Murex trunculus is the real techelet mentioned in the Torah, it's hard to find someone who is really objective on the issue. Many people, including some rabbanim, seem to have made up their minds for the most part, before they start "investigating" the matter. For example,...

Tekhelet Research Conference in Jerusalem

Some 350 participants and 20 speakers are expected to take part in an international conference on techelet research on December 30 at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem. Rabbi Yitzchak Halevi Herzog The conference was initiated to mark the centennial of the late Chief Rabbi Dr. Isaac Halevi Herzog's ground-breaking doctoral dissertation, "The Dyeing...

Tying Rambam tzitzit with techelet

We get a considerable number of orders for tallit and tallit katan products with Yemenite/Rambam tzitzit. Many of our customers who order Rambam tzitzit are the kind of people who are likely to tie themselves, but of course to tie Rambam you really need a "mori" to show you. I was taught by a...

Ben Ish Chai Tzitzit Tying

We offer half dozen tzitzit tying and techelet tzitzit tying customs on all of our tallit and tallit katan products: Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Yemenite, Chabad, Arizal, Rambam, Vilna Gaon, Sefer HaChinuch, Tosefot and Raavad. However, one tying custom we do not list as a standard option is Ben Ish Chai tzitzit. Here in Jerusalem I...

Tzitzit Options

Unlike other online tallit sellers, we offer a large range of tzitzit options, which can overwhelm our customers. What is the difference in the choices between machine-made and hand-spun tzitzit, and thin and thick tzitzit? I'm confused...Also what is the difference between the Askenazi and Chabad tzitzit tying customs? Thanks...Steve R. Types of Tzitzit Machine-spun is slightly...

Tchelet: A guide for the aspiring tallit maker

We receive about half a dozen inquiries a day. Often customers want to know how to track their orders, how to order a special type of tzitzit, which tchelet tzitzit to choose, how to tie tchelet, etc. Yesterday we received a very terse inquiry, obviously written by an earnest mother with an important tallit...

Children’s Tzitzit – Buying Tips

Children's tzitzit come in several different varieties: traditional wool tallit katan, traditional cotton tallit katan, cotton with silkscreen designs for tykes, traditional wool children's tallit, mesh tallit katan and undershirt-style tallit katan. Be aware that although strictly speaking the tzitzit are the strings and the garment they are attached to is called a "tallit...

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...