bar mitzvah – Ben's Tallit Shop

Bar Mitzvah Sets

To tell you the truth, we avoid using the term bar mitzvah set because it can mean different things to different people. Often a bar mitzvah set consists of a tallit, matching bag and matching kippah. In other cases a bar mitzvah set revolves around a set of tefillin and often includes a siddur...

Bar Mitzvah Tallit Sizes

To enter tallit store, click on image What is the right bar mitzvah tallit size? That depends not only on the bar mitzvah boy, but on the type of congregation he belongs to as well. Bar Mitzvah Tallit - Narrow Sizes In most Reform congregations, people wear the type of tallit that sits on the shoulders and

Tefillin – Know what’s inside

I just lost a sale, but I'm glad. A family in Washington D.C. wanted to buy a tallit, a set of bar mitzvah tefillin and a set of tallit and tefillin bags for their son, whose bar mitzvah is coming up soon. I referred them to my tefillin page, which explains at length why I...

Tefillin Laying Device for Amputees

IDF engineers designed a device that enables amputees to lay tefillin independently. "First I had to learn how to put on tefillin," said one of the MILBAT (Israel Center for Technology and Accessibility) workers. "It took me months to put together this device." Since then it...

Tying Tzitzit Before Bar Mitzvah

Can a young man spin tzitzit or tie tzitzit on his own tallit before his bar mitzvah?