Tallit Making

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• Religious Concerns About Kenya
• Young Nuns
• Tallit Making

February 8, 2008

Jewish prayer shawls are called tallit. The elaborately braided fringes, the tzitzit, on the four corners of the shawls, represent God’s 613 commandments to the Jews. We discovered a synagogue with a class in which boys and girls preparing for their coming of age ceremonies, bar mitzvahs and bat mitzvahs, make their own tallit.

Related Links

My Jewish Learning: "Tallit" by Rabbi Louis Jacobs
Washington Post: "Jewish Prayer Shawl Weaver," April 24, 2005

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