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Resumen
- Tzitzit are the knotted fringes God told Israel to wear on the corners of their garments, so that every time they looked at them they would remember his commandments (Numbers 15:37–41; Deuteronomy 22:12).
- Jews today wear them on the tallit at prayer and on the small tallit katan under the shirt, and the passage from Numbers is the third paragraph of the Shema.
- Rashi adds up the letters of the word, which come to six hundred, and the eight threads and five knots of each fringe, and he arrives at 613, the number of the commandments of the Torah; Ramban objected that the Torah’s own spelling comes only to 590.
- The Torah asks for a blue thread, tekhelet, but the dye was scarce even in the days of the Mishnah, which lets a fringe keep the commandment without it, and most Jews, Rabbi Rashi Simon says, still wear none.
- The codes of Jewish law accepted Rabbi Shimon’s view that women are exempt, and Jewish teachers have told a woman who wants a tallit that she need not, that she might, and by some that she had better not, while Conservative and Reform rabbis write that it is open to her.
- Where the King James Bible says “hem” or “border” in five places, the Greek word is the one Thayer’s lexicon gives for tzitzit, so the fringe a woman touched in the Gospels is probably this one, though the Gospels do not say so in as many words.
- When Jesus warns against enlarging the fringe in Matthew 23:5, his complaint is about being seen, and Rabbi Jay Kelman gives the same warning from inside Judaism.
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- Scripture is quoted from the King James Version: Numbers 15:37–41, Leviticus 15:19–27, Deuteronomy 22:12, Matthew 9:20–22, 14:34–36, 23:1–5, Mark 6:53–56, Luke 8:43–48 and Zechariah 8:23.
- “What Is Tzitzit?”, Chabad.org.
- “Tzitzit, the Fringes on the Prayer Shawl”, “Tallit (The Prayer Shawl)” y “The Tallit: Spiritual Significance”, My Jewish Learning.
- Ramban on Numbers 15:39, Hebrew text with an English rendering, Blue Fringes.
- Rashi on Numbers 15:39 y Mishnah Menachot 4:1, English text on the Sefaria Library.
- Joseph Jacobs and Judah David Eisenstein, “Fringes”, The Jewish Encyclopedia, vol. 5 (1906).
- Rabbi Rashi Simon, “Techelet”, Kesher, 10 January 2024.
- JNS.org, “First Definitive Proof of Ancient Blue Dye ‘Tekhelet’ Discovered in Israel”, the Algemeiner, 31 December 2013.
- Rabbi Lisa Grushcow, “The Evolving Role of the Tallit”, Union for Reform Judaism, June 2018.
- Rabbi Jay Kelman, “Menachot 43: Women and Tzitzit”, Torah In Motion, 24 October 2018, and Natalie Bergner, “Women and Tallit”, Women of the Wall.
- Rabbi David Golinkin, “Of Burials, Body Bags and Rabbis”, The Schechter Institutes, 12 November 2001.
- Strong’s Greek 2899, kraspedon, with Thayer’s lexicon entry, Bible Hub.
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