Tallit
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 142 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5108-1322-7
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A tallit (Hebrew: ?????????) (talet in Sephardic Hebrew and Ladino) (tallis, in Ashkenazic Hebrew and Yiddish) pl. tallitot (talleisim,tallism, in Ashkenazic Hebrew and Yiddish) is a Jewish prayer shawl. The tallit is worn over the outer clothes during the morning prayers (Shacharit) on weekdays, Shabbat and holidays. The tallit has special twined and knotted fringes known as tzitzit attached to its four corners. The tallit can be made of any materials except a mixture of wool and linen. Usually, the mixture of wool and linen - a combination known as shatnez - is specifically forbidden by the Torah. In the case of Talit however, this is a Rabbinic prohibition, because biblically, the mixture might be allowed for a Talit during the daytime (however at nighttime there would be a transgression on behalf of the wearer). Most traditional tallitot are made of wool. Tallitot are often given as gifts to children on their Bar Mitzvahs. In many...