Explore the significance of the ritually fringed four-cornered garment.
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lol i like it ,very cool people can learn alot from it.
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I love the deed. especially the ease and accuracy of the teaching. I am highly impressed. shalom
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Excellent work with this video, very informative for those that require easy to comprehend information, as ever your web sites are top quality. well done, todah
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Thank you for taking the time to teach us. We are learning so much. May the Holy One bless you and your family!
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Thank you for the teachings of the Deed. In a simple ma complete way,you show us in these videos the importance and how to do correctly the Mitzvot. Shalom
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Thanks for reminding me how important these mitzvos are. Doing them every morning one can grow casual in the doing. I have been 'awakened' after reading these articles. Thank you so much.
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OK...so how do tie tzitzit according to Chabad minhag??
I saw a Youtube vid that went so fast I couldn't follow it.
Is the Chabad tying method 7,8,11,13 wraps between knots?
Thanks
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To David:
The Chabad tying method is indeed to wind 7,8,11,13 wraps between knots. However, there is the additional detail known as chulyot, which means that there are subgroups created within these larger segments.
See these diagrams that illustrate how it looks.
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I'm just curious why Sfaradim and even Mitnagdim tuck in their tzitzit if must be seen. Does it have to be seen 24/7? Also, do you fulfill the mitzvah of wearing tzitzit if you put it on, say the bracha, but then take it off? Is there a prescribed amount of time per day one must wear tzitzit?
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We read in Shulchan Aruch (O.C. 8:11) that one should wear the tzitzit over his other garments so that he can constantly see them and be reminded of the mitzvot.
In fact, Rabbi Israel Meir Kagan (known as the Chafetz Chaim) strongly objected to those who tucked their tzitzit into their pants. He wrote (Mishnah Brurah 8:26) that doing so is a denigration of the mitzvot. He gives an example of a person who received a garment as a gift from a king -- obviously he would proudly expose it for all to see. All the more so, then, should one make a point of exposing the tzitzit.
On the other hand, we see in the kabbalistic writings (Pri Etz Chaim, Shaar Tzitzit I) that the AriZal would wear his tzitzit under his other garments. The reason for this practice is because the talit katan represents a more internal level while the talit gadol represents the external and therefore worn over the other garments. The Rebbe (Likuttei Sichot 23 Shlach III) explains that in the talit katan reality, the fact that one knows about his tzitzit is considered vision since he internally sees them in his mind's eye. On the other hand, the talit gadol which represent the external aspects must be visible to the naked eye as well.
Many Sephardim base their practice on this precedent and therefore tuck their tzitzit into their pants. They fulfill the obligation of actually “seeing” the tzitzit through wearing their talit gadol over the other garments.
The Alter Rebbe writes (Shulchan Aruch 8:18) that nonetheless one should leave the tzitzit out so that they serve as a constant reminder, and this is the accepted Chabad practice.
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why must the tekheles be such a specific and rare dye? and in the absence of such a dye, should we not do our best to fulfill the mitz'vah of a "thread of blue", to the best of our ability? Why not use a blue that is either darker or lighter than actual tekheles, so that it cannot be mistaken for tekheles, but is still blue?
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suggesting that we use another dye instead of techelet is like asking a doctor to place another similar looking liquid into the bag dripping into the arm of the patient since they ran out of the stuff they normally put in the i.v. or asking your a chef to put mud into the spaghetti since there is no beef and they look almost alike. They may look alike, but one nourishes and the other does not.
Techelet is the mitzvah that G-d asked for and indigo or blueberries just won't make the cut.
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I do understand this. I know what the Tal'mud says about not using a substitute for tekheles which looks like tekheles, but if one uses an extremely dark blue, or an extremely light blue, it does not resemble tekheles, but is still blue - and is at least closer to the mitz'vah than omitting the blue thread all together.
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Problem is that if they are not techeles, the thread must be the same color as the garment that they are fixed to.
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