Why Wear the Tallit? 繸子

Scripture reference about Tzitzit

Numbers 15:37-41; Deuternomy 22:12

15:37 And YHWH (יהוה) spake unto Mosheh, saying:

Tzitziyot on the Tallit

15:38 Speak unto the Benai Yisrael, and bid them that they make them tzitzitot in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the tzitzit of the borders a cord (thread twist פּתיל) of blue: 一根藍細帶子

15:39 And it shall be unto you for a tzitzit, that ye may look upon it, and zakar (remember) all the mitzvot of YHWH (יהוה), and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:

15:40 That ye may zakar (remember), and do all my mitzvot, and be kadosh unto your Elohim (אלהים).

15:41 ANI YHWH (יהוה) your Elohim (אלהים), which brought you out of the land of Mitzrayim, to be your Elohim (אלהים): ANI YHWH (יהוה) your Elohim (אלהים).

Devarim 22:11 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, [as] of woollen and linen together. )

Dvarim 22:12 Thou shalt make thee gedilim (fringes, tzitzt, twisted threads) upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.

Malakhi 4:2 But unto you that fear My Name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in His wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

A closer look at the passage in Nu 15,37-41 shows that the command of Tzitzit applies only to clothing, as the passage specifically states "And they will make for themselves Tzitzit on the corners of their garments" (Nu 15,38). The Biblical Hebrew word for garments (BeGeD) relates to something that is worn as clothing. The Torah does not state which dye must be used to create the blue strings. Any dye that produces the color blue is sufficient. The strings of the Tzitzit are to be tied into a chain-like knot and placed on the corners of four-cornered garments. This is commanded in Dt 22,12 which states "Chains [Gedilim, cf.1Ki 7,17] shall you make for yourself on the four corners of your clothing, with which you cover yourself with." The chain-like knots can be made in any number of ways. The important thing is that they have the appearance of links in a chain (Gedilim) and that they include at least one blue strand. The word Tzitzit itself literally means a "braid, plait" as in the verse "and took me by a plait (KJV: lock) of mine head". Thus the design of the Tzitzit must be like that of a braid/plait of hair which is the same design as the links in a chain.

 

Tzitzit in Yeshua's Ministry

Tassels, tzitzityot , fringes, Kraspedon (greek) the edge of His cloak, the hem of garment

Mattiyahu 23:5 Everything they do is done to be seen by others; for they make their t'fillin broad and their tzitziyot long,

Mark 6:56 Wherever he went, in towns, cities or country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces. They begged him to let them touch even the tzitzit on his robe, and all who touched it were healed.

Mark 5:25-43

5:25Among them was a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years

5:26and had suffered a great deal under many physicians. She had spent her life savings; yet instead of improving, she had grown worse.

5:27She had heard about Yeshua, so she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his robe;

5:28for she said, "If I touch even his clothes, I will be healed."

5:29Instantly the hemorrhaging stopped, and she felt in her body that she had been healed from the disease.

5:30At the same time, Yeshua, aware that power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"

5:31His talmidim responded, "You see the people pressing in on you; and still you ask, `Who touched me?'"

5:32But he kept looking around to see who had done it.

5:33The woman, frightened and trembling, because she knew what had happened to her, came and fell down in front of him and told him the whole truth.

5:34"Daughter," he said to her, "your trust has healed you. Go in peace, and be healed of your disease."

5:35While he was still speaking, people from the synagogue official's house came, saying, "Your daughter has died. Why bother the rabbi any longer?"

5:36Ignoring what they had said, Yeshua told the synagogue official, "Don't be afraid, just keep trusting."

5:37He let no one follow him except Kefa, Ya`akov and Yochanan, Ya`akov's brother.

5:38When they came to the synagogue official's house, he found a great commotion, with people weeping and wailing loudly.

5:39On entering, he said to them, "Why all this commotion and weeping? The child isn't dead, she's just asleep!"

5:40And they jeered at him. But he put them all outside, took the child's father and mother and those with him, and went in where the child was.

5:41Taking her by the hand, he said to her, "Talita, kumi!"

5:42At once the girl got up and began walking around; she was twelve years old. Everybody was utterly amazed.

5:43He gave them strict orders to say nothing about this to anyone, and told them to give her something to eat.

 

Methods of tying the Tzitzit :

The Shamash method of tying the Tzitzit

http://www.tekhelet.com/diagrams/Standard781113TyingDiagram2.pdf

Interpretation 1

YHVH ECHAD

*7+8=15, which in Hebrew is written yod-hay,

11=vav+hay, the third

13= the last set of windings, is equivalent in value to the word "echad" which means "one."

*7 Some interpret the 7 is to represent the 7 attribute of HaShem Chesed – lovingkindness; Gevurah – severity or strength; Tiferet – beauty compassion; Netzach – victory or triumph; Yesod – foundation or intimacy. EL HAI,  EL SHADDAI; Malchut – kingdom or majesty  

Interpretation 2

Take the sum of the first three numbers (7+8+11) and equate that with Hashem's Name, then the 13 which remain can also be interpreted to reflect the 13 attributes of Hashem, as articulated by Moses Maimonides and set to verse in the Yigdal.

Interpretation 3

The Gematria value of the word "Tzitzit" (tzadi-yod-tzitzit-yod-taf) is 600. To this we add the eight strands plus the five knots, totaling 613 in all. 8 Strands + 5 knots = 613 Mitzvot

Interpretation 4

 

Below is a simple illustration on how to tie the tzitzit

 

Saying a Blessing

BARUCH ATA ADONAI ELOHAYNU MELECH HAOLAM ASHER KID'SHANU B'MITZ-VO-TAV V-TZIVANU L'HI-TA-TAYF BA-TZITZIT
Blessed are You, Adonay our Elohim, Ruler of the Universe, who makes us holy with commandments, and has commanded us to wrap ourselves in he Tzitzit.
Kiss the end of Atarah where the last word of the blessing is embroidered, and then a beginning where the first word is.

Wrap the tallit around your shoulders, holding it over your head for a moment of private meditation.

Adjust the tallit on your shoulders comfortably

Tallit טלית

Beware

You should be careful not to bring the tallit into the bathroom with you! many synagogues have a tallit rack outside of the bathroom, if you see a room in a synagogue with a sign that tells you to remove your tallit before entering, you can safely assume that the room is a bathroom!

Katan

It is a special four-cornered garment, similar to a poncho, called a tallit katan ("little tallit"), so that they will have the opportunity to fulfill this important mitzvah all day long. The tallit katan is worn under the shirt, with the tzitzit hanging out so they can be seen.

Murex Trunculus Shell to produce dye

 

Chilazon

Other means of obtain the colour dye from a type of cuttlefish call Hillazon  “The hillazon is this: its body is like the sea, its creation is like fish, it comes up once in seventy years and with its blood one dyes tekhelet - consequently it is expensive”.(Menacchot 44a) read more from this article http://www.tekhelet.com/pdf/braita.pdf The fishers of the hillazon are from Haifa to Tzur (Tyre). (Shabbat 26a). How are dye made? http://www.tekhelet.com/criteria.htm

The Transformation of Tallitot: How Jewish Prayer Shawls Have Changed Since Women Began Wearing Them  Rebecca Shulman Herz

 

Why is this Garment Special?

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