What is Tallit
What is Tallit
What is Tallit
$0“What are those strings hanging out of your pants?” May seem an awkward, and perhaps inappropriate, question to be asked, though for more than a few religious Jewish men it has become as common as being asked what the little hat they wear is. Those strings are the fringes of a garment called a tallit. The tallit is the response to the bible’s commandment to tie fringes to the corners of...
A Tallit (Hebrew: טַלִּית) is a Jewish prayer shawl.
A Tallit (Hebrew: טַלִּית) is a Jewish prayer shawl.
A Tallit (Hebrew: טַלִּית) is a Jewish prayer shawl.
$0Torah requires Jews to wear a garment of some type to cover themselves, while praying, and such garment must have fringes (tzitzit) attached to its 4 corners. The covering of oneself in the Tallit, during the prayer, is seen as a symbolic covering of oneself with the presence of God and separation from the natural world around. The custom of wearing Tallit dates back to 1800 BC, although the...