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Why do we don a tallit before laying tefillin?
This is a good question, and really it's probably a better question than the answers out there.
For context, we have to realize that this question (order of operations for donning Tzitzit and ...
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Is there any basis for Chabad minhagim regarding tallit gadol?
I emailed Rabbi Eliezer Zalmanov (from Chabad.org) about your question. Here's what I said:
B''H
In most Ashkenazi communities, the custom is that bochurim do not wear a tallis. However, when a ...
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Can a gentile make a tallit?
In Shulchan Aruch O"C 14:1 it says:
ציצית שעשאן אינו יהודי פסול, דכתיב: "דבר אל בני ישראל", לאפוקי אינו יהודי
Tzitzis that a non-Jew made are invalid, for it says, "Speak to the ...
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Are Tallis and Tefillin considered beged ish?
The Targum Yonasan to the verse prohibiting a woman to wear men's gear says specifically it includes Tallis and Tefilin. However, that doesn't seem to be the prevailing opinion. The Aruch HaShulchan ...
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When are men supposed to start wearing a tallit?
The page on Halachapedia gives a clear rundown. I will try and link the sources accordingly (everyone feel free to add to any I can't find):
The Sephardic custom is to wear a Tallit Gadol from the ...
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Cleaning Tallis Godol and Tallis Koton
The Rema OC 21:3 mentions, that some have a custom of not giving a Tallis to a non-Jewish launderer.
The Beis Yosef (ibid.) notes that he never heard of such a custom.
Rabbi Zalman of Liadi in his ...
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Why does a Tallit-gadol and a Tallit-katan have Tzitziyot?
I think your questions reverses things. We wear a tallit because we want the mitzva of tzitzit. Therefore we look for a garment which is obligated in the mitzva, i.e., has four corners (MT Hilchot ...
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Duchaning without a talis
See SA OC128, 23 in annotation of the Rama.
הגה: וגם הכהנים לא יסתכלו בידיהם על כן נהגו לשלשל הטלית על פניהם וידיהם חוץ לטלית. ויש מקומות שנהגו שידיהם בפנים מן הטלית שלא יסתכלו העם בהם (בית יוסף):&...
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How should a tallit gadol be washed?
Buy something what is called WOOLITE. This is special detergent for wool, you can find it in every supermarket. Put your talis in the bucket, fill with warm, not hot water, add cup of Woolite and ...
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Where are we commanded to wrap ourselves in Tzitzit?
(As background, know that there is an argument (see Tur OC 8) if a formal "Arab-style" wrapping is the only method of wearing a four-cornered garment which qualifies for the biblical command of ...
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Duchaning without a talis
Chashukei Chemed - Megila - page 314 says that it is better for the Kohain not to Duchan rather than covering himself with another object.
Yalkut Yosef 5764 edition - Tefila Volume 2 - 128:100 also ...
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Is a new blessing required when taking off and putting back on your tallit?
This is a dispute recorded in Shulchan Aruch O.C. 8:14:
אם פשט טליתו אפילו היה דעתו לחזור ולהתעטף בו מיד צריך לברך כשיחזור ויתעטף בו הגה וי"א שאין מברכין אם יהיה דעתו לחזור ולהתעטף בו וי"א ...
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Tallit on Shabbat which is 9 av
One does not perform any outer acts of mourning during Shabbos, even if it's the ninth of Av (see Mishnah Berurah 552:23 and 553:6). The custom is those who normally wear a Tallis at Shacharis to ...
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Community without tzitzith
Rabbenu Avraham ben HaRambam implies (HaMaspik L'Ovdei Hashem, ed. Wincelberg p. 27) that in his place and time it was not common to wear a four cornered garment with tsitsit.
He is giving examples ...
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Are Tzitzis obligated in Tzitzis
Indeed, perhaps a functionless tallit is not obligated in tzitzit. This seems to have been the opinion of R. Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz, at least:
Shilhi Dekayta Siman 8
וכששטחתי את גליונות הספר ...
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Wearing Tallit after the morning?
One who puts on a tallit anytime during the day certainly fulfills a mitzvah and therefore makes the appropriate blessing. However, putting on a tallit at night may not fulfill a mitzvah, and ...
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Why do we don the tallit gadol?
Perhaps the main function of the tallith gadol is as a beged meyuchad l'tefilla (a garment designated for prayer), as a sign of respect when we stand before the King (see e.g. Orach Chaim 91:2; see ...
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What is the difference between a Rebbe Rashab Tallis and the regular chabad tallis?
The main difference between the two is size. The Rashab Tallis is significantly wider. Ben's Tallit shop says it is the widest that he sells ("even wider than a size 90 Yemenite Tallit"). It is ...
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Duchaning without a talis
http://etzion.org.il/en/birkat-kohanim-priestly-blessing-part-iv
According to this article on the Yeshivat Har Etzion Virtual Beit Midrash there are achronim who hold that If one does not have a ...
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Yekke Tallit Gadol
I'm a Jekke, so I think I can answer this from communal experience. Most Jekkes now use black-striped tallisaus during the year (only married men wear white stripes, and only then during Yomim Noroim)....
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Tallis Gadol during Kabbalas Shabbos (Minhag Ashkenaz?)
What is the Ashkenazi minhag as regards wearing a tallis gadol during Kabbalas Shabbos (i.e. the ceremony/liturgy of welcoming in Shabbos on Friday evening)? Should it be worn, or not?
The ...
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Why do we don the tallit gadol?
The concept is to fulfill all opinions concerning the concept of being completely wrapped (עטיפה גמורה) by the talit. This is being wrapped at least at the time of the blessing completely around the ...
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Blue Stripes on Tallis
Stripes on Tallis states that the Pri Megadim stated that the custom was to use blue in his time (mid to late 1700's). Apparently both customs were extant long before. I saw an article that Yigal ...
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May one temporarily remove ẓiẓit from a garment in order to launder it?
In 21, 3 the Rama wrote:
שלא ליתנו לכובסת גויה .
Not to give Talit with tsitsit to a Gentile washwerwoman {Mishna Berura: instead, remove the Tsitsit before}.
In Gemara, there seems to be an ...
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Wearing a Tallis for Kiddush Levana
In the Mateh Ephraim סימן תרכד סעיף ד ge says to leave the Tallis and Kittel on for Kiddush Levana.
The Nitei Gavriel brings many more sources in his footnotes פרק סו סעיף טו הערות סעיף כג
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Duchaning without a talis
The sefer נשיאת כפים כהלכתא writes in perek 10 (12) that if one cannot obtain a tallis one should not duchan since the custom today is that ll the kohanim cover themselves with a tallis and one is not ...
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Why was the use of the tallit instituted as halacha?
Although he does not seem to agree with the full extent of your citation (i.e. that it is an actual duty), Rambam (Hilkhot Tsitsit 3:12) writes that this mitsvah is particularly important, and ...
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Community without tzitzith
R. Eliezer ben Nathan has a responsum (Sefer Ra'avan siman 40) in which the question posed was, "why do the majority of Jews not wear tzitzit on a daily basis?"
שאלני חתני רבי אורי מצוה חמודה כמו ...
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Why don't we wear tallit and tefillin on Tisha B'Av morning?
Your question is asked and answered by the Aruch haShulchan in
סימן תקנה - דיני תפילין וציצית בתשעה באב
א אף על גב דכמה דברים דין תשעה באב כאבל, מכל מקום לא חייבו חכמים בתשעה באב בכפיית המטה ...
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