Knotted threads on the corners of a Tallit Gadol or Tallit Katan in Judaism
Tzitzit
Tzitzis
Halakhic texts relating to this article
Torah:
Numbers 15:38 and Deuteronomy 22:12
Babylonian Talmud:
Menachos 39-42
Mishneh Torah:
Ahavah (Love): Tzitzit
Shulchan Aruch:
Orach Chayim 8-25
Tzitzit (Hebrew: צִיצִיתṣīṣīṯ, [tsiˈtsit]; plural צִיצִיּוֹת ṣīṣiyyōṯ, Ashkenazi: tzitzis; and Samaritan: ࠑࠉࠑࠉࠕ ṣeṣet) are specially knotted ritual fringes, or tassels, worn in antiquity by Israelites and today by observant Jews and Samaritans. Tzitzit are usually attached to the four corners of the tallit gadol (prayer shawl), usually referred to simply as a tallit or tallis; and tallit katan (everyday undershirt). Through synecdoche, a tallit katan may be referred to as tzitzit.
religious Jews. The tallit has special twined and knotted fringes known as tzitzit attached to its four corners. The cloth part is known as the beged ("garment")...
common for a tallit katan, an undergarment with tzitzit. According to the Biblical commandments, tzitzit must be attached to any four-cornered garment,...
matter what the calendar date of that Sunday on which it happens to fall. A Tzitzit (alternatively spelled Ṣiṣit, plural: Tzitziyot or Ṣiṣiyot) is a knotted...
clothing of the High Priest, the tapestries in the Tabernacle, and the tzitzit (fringes) attached to the corners of four-cornered garments, including...
Christian sources, and to the Christian appropriation of Jewish rituals, tzitzit and tallit. Matthew 9:20–22 says: And a woman who had been suffering from...
reached. Other sources connect the tzitzit (ritual fringes of a garment) to the 613 commandments by gematria: the word tzitzit (Hebrew: ציצית, in its Mishnaic...
to Moses instructing him to tell the Israelites to make tassels (Hebrew tzitzit) on the corners of their garments, to help them to remember all the commandments...
garments of kohanim[further explanation needed] and tzitit. Concerning tzitzit, chazal permit using wool and linen strings in tandem only when genuine...
the back of the head to a large, snug cap that covers the whole crown. Tzitzit (Hebrew: צִיציִת) (Ashkenazi pronunciation: tzitzis) are special knotted...
of the Sabbath violator, and the commandment of the fringes (צִיצִת, tzitzit). The parashah constitutes Numbers 13:1–15:41. It is made up of 5,820 Hebrew...
It's not a Sephardi practice to let the tzitziyot of the tzitzit katan hang out. In the tzitzit, each winding loops through the preceding one, and the pattern...
antiquity by Israelites and today by observant Jews and Samaritans are called Tzitzit, to be attached to the four corners of the tallit gadol, (prayer shawl)...
in Judaism: In the Torah, the Israelites were commanded to put fringes, tzitzit, on the corners of their garments, and to weave within these fringes a...
suggesting that Saadia considered tzitzit obligatory even at night. Perlow concluded, instead, that Saadia meant that tzitzit is obligatory in every generation...
fringes or tassels (Matthew 23:5), a reference to the formative çîçîth (tzitzit). Because of the Pharisees' authority, people regarded the fringe as having...
deed). According to Isaac Luria, a 16th-century kabbalist, the Hebrew word tzitzit (ציצת in its Biblical spelling, meaning "ritual fringes") is an acronym...
(Malachi Grayson), who is Gaius's son too. Upon realizing the value of Tzitzit, Matthew ties them to his garment. After Jesus assigns John to bring an...
Israelites are commanded to have one of the threads of their tassels (tzitzit) dyed with tekhelet; "so that they may look upon it, and remember all the...
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