I'm pretty sure I once saw the Mishna Brura talk about how it's best not to cut tzitzis with metal and that there's a custom to cut tzitzis strings with your teeth. But now, although I keep searching through O.C. Siman 11, I can't seem to find it. Can anyone come up with marei mekomos?
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Kaf HaHaim Palagi (Siman 10:12) writes that one should not cut the Sisit with metal because of "Lo tanif aleyhen barzel." See Kisur HaShela 53b. |
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The Yalqut Yosef may write that it is better not, but if one needs to he may. I think the Ben Ish Hai brings the Rashash who writes to refrain from doing so. |
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Look in Mogen Avraham sif katan 18 and Shulchan Aruch Harav (11:24) where it says that one should not cut Tzitzis with metal (like a Mizbeyach (Altar)) but cut them with his teeth. It's also in the Mishna Brura s"k 61 |
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