Yemenite tzitzit

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...

When I first decided to learn how to tie Yemenite tzitzit, it wasn't easy. The online videos I watched were very hard to follow, so I went to a local Yemenite Jew and he taught me very patiently, but I didn't really get the hang of it. Then I went to an Ashkenazi yeshiva...

Ptil Tekhelet – Rambam 7

Those who start tying Rambam tzitzit – both if you are tying techelet tzitzit or all white – may be undecided whether to tie 7 chulyoth or 13. The Gemara states very clearly that seven is the minimum and 13 is the maximum. Some poskim hold that 7 is the minimum and 13 is...

Yemenite Tzitzit

I recently came across a product labeled "Yemenite Tzitzit" on one of the leading online tallit shops. This sounded peculiar to me. There is such a thing as Sephardic Tzitzits, which simply come with longer shamash strings for those who tie chulyot (loops) around each winding, but Yemenite tzitzits? What are Yemenite tzitzit? I...