What do tzitzit symbolize?
The numerical value of tzitzit, coupled with the number of knots and strings used to make these fringes, is 613, equal to the number of commandments. Beyond feeling God’s presence, one, through the wearing of tzitzit, has a constant awareness of responsibility to God’s law.
What is the difference between tallit and tzitzit?
Tzitzit are the fringes that religious Jewish males wear under their shirts, while the tallit is the traditional Jewish prayer shawl.
What is the mitzvah of tzitzit?
The mitzvah of tzitzis consists of placing strings through the corners of a four-cornered garment.
How many strings does a tzitzit have?
Each tassel has eight threads (when doubled over) and five sets of knots, totaling 13. The sum of all numbers is 613, traditionally the number of commandments in the Torah.
Can you throw away tzitzit?
Can I throw them away? Shulchan Aruch (OC 21:1-2) writes that torn tzitzis strings and old tzitzis garments may be thrown in the garbage. However, the garments and strings may not be used in a degrading manner.
Who can tie tzitzit?
The Aruch Hashulchan (OC 14:7) writes as well that tzitzis may be made at night, and he offers the following proof. Shulchan Aruch (OC 14:1) allows women to tie the strings of tzitzis onto the garment (although Rema writes that lechatchila, as a stringency, women should not do so).
Do you have to wear tzitzit at night?
According to the Rambam, there is no mitzvah to wear tzitzis at night.
Can you cut tzitzit?
As a tallit and tzitzit professional, I use these scissors to cut tzitzit when necessary, because according to Jewish law it is preferable not to cut the tzitzit with a metal blade. I used to use broken shards of glass, but obviously these zirconium oxide ceramic scissors work much better.
Where do you wear tzitzit?
In the Samaritan tradition, the tallit is a gown worn over their clothes during most holy days, and the tzitzit are the 22 “buttons” on the right lapel of the gown, and the corresponding loops on its left lapel.
What do you do with a tzitzit?
The garment itself may be thrown directly into the garbage even according to the Rema. Although there is no obligation to bury the strings, Rema writes that those who are extra careful to bury the strings, as is done with Sheimos (Torah writings), will merit a beracha.
What is Sheimos?
Objects which have innate holiness, kedusha, are shaimos. This means that, when discarded, they must be wrapped in plastic and buried.