| Our Tallit Shop your on-line resource to buy | | | | the initial syllable. Both pronunciations are |
| Prayer Shawls and to buy Tallits from the Holy | | | | commonly interchanged and refer to the same |
| Land. A tallit is a Jewish Prayer Shawl worn on the | | | | object. |
| Sabbath, on Holidays, during life-cycle events, and | | | | A person generally selects or receives his/her |
| for morning prayers. The tallit or prayer shawl has | | | | first full tallit during the process of preparation for |
| knotted fringes on each of the four corners know | | | | b-mitzvah. Some Jews always wear a light-weight |
| as tzitzit. | | | | tallit under their clothes called a tallit kattan, "little |
| A tallit (also known as a prayer shawl, especially | | | | tallit" and others prefer the full shawl-style talit for |
| by Christians) is a rectangle or square cloth with | | | | prayer and special occasions in life. For example: |
| tzitzit (fringes) on each of the four corners and | | | | - A Jewish wedding canopy is often a large talit, |
| an atarah along the collar. It is worn in obedience | | | | canopy of spirit, held over the couple on four |
| to the biblical commandment to wear tzitzit found | | | | poles. |
| in Numbers 15:37-41. The passage reads: | | | | - A Jewish person is buried wearing a talit. |
| "The L-RD also spoke to Moses, saying, 'Speak to | | | | -An old talit that is unsightly/torn/unusable gets |
| the sons of Israel, and tell them that they shall | | | | donated to the synagogue or a Judaic library and |
| make for themselves tassels on the corners of | | | | will be used to wrap worn out or superfluous |
| their garments throughout their generations, and | | | | documents like photocopies with Adonai, the |
| that they shall put on the tassel of each corner a | | | | sacred name of G*d on them in Hebrew script so |
| cord of blue. It shall be a tassel for you to look at | | | | that they can be buried with dignity in a geniza, a |
| and remember all the commandments of the | | | | Jewish cemetery section set aside for this |
| L-RD, so as to do them and not follow after your | | | | purpose. |
| own heart and your own eyes, after which you | | | | If you are looking for a tallit or prayer shawl, you |
| played the harlot, so that you may remember to | | | | can find discount tallit warehouses online and shop |
| do all My commandments and be holy to your | | | | from your armchair! A good online tallit shop will |
| G-d. I am the L-RD your G-d who brought you | | | | offer tallits and prayer shawls in a range of sizes, |
| out from the land of Egypt to be your G-d; I am | | | | both traditional and contemporary styles for men, |
| the L-RD your G-d.'" | | | | women, and bar/bat mitzvah children, in a variety |
| The word talit in Modern Hebrew is pronounced | | | | of fabrics & designs. They will even include |
| tah-LEET, or [ta.lít] in IPA, with the stress on | | | | the techelet as a custom order if requested, and |
| the final syllable. Less common today, but | | | | will work with you as an individual to find the |
| historically quite widespread, is the pronunciation | | | | perfect tallit for you! |
| tallet, or [ta.lét] in IPA. The same word is | | | | |
| pronounced TAH-lis in Yiddish, transcribed | | | | . |
| [tá.lɛs] or [tá.lýs] in IPA, with the stress on | | | | |