A man does not have to wear a tallith if he is unmarried. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In an article published in Outlook magazine, written only three years before her death in New York City on September 6, 1987, Evelyn Garfiel declared that Jewish women should assume traditionally male ritual obligations such as daily prayer and the wearing of a tallith and tefillin. ❋ Unknown (2009)
So my uncle was bicycling and praying, and his tallith, had he been on a real bicycle facing the wind and the elements, would have been flapping behind him like a cape. ❋ Jonathan Ames (2004)
And though he wasn't an Orthodox Jew, he wore official davening gear: about his shoulders was his silky, white tallith with its blue stripes and fringes, and on his left arm and on his forehead were his tefillin—the leather boxes and straps favored by Jews for their morning prayers. ❋ Jonathan Ames (2004)
Instinctively the fisherman thrust his fingers against the little _tallith_, the touch of which aroused in him a mighty passion, for in the face of the serpent he now saw the lust of the Roman who had taken Sara. ❋ Bernie Babcock (N/A)
"Affright not Joel," Martha replied to her brother, "but tell me whether the _kittuna_ of this Rabbi is wool or flax, or his _tallith_ handsomely embroidered." ❋ Bernie Babcock (N/A)
Nowadays, on the date referred to, Jews do not wear their tallith and phylacteries at morning prayer; by this act laying aside the outward signs of their covenant with God; but, contrary to custom, they put them on in the evening, when the fast is nearly over. ❋ Various (N/A)
From his coat Jael took a small bit of cloth suspended like an ornament on a neck cord and holding it toward Jesus said, "Her little _tallith_." ❋ Bernie Babcock (N/A)
Take now thy little _tallith_ and if thy faith fail thee, from the touch of it may new strength come. ❋ Bernie Babcock (N/A)
Drawing himself into a sitting position, the Hindoo took the _tallith_, pressed it into the palm of his hand and sat for a short time without speaking. ❋ Bernie Babcock (N/A)
The _tallith_ they tore into four parts, probably ripping it down the seams; but the ❋ Rossiter Johnson (1906)
They arrived at the same result from the fact that the Jews were commanded (Numb. 15: 38) to wear fringes (_tsitsith_) on the corners of their _tallith_, bound with a thread of blue; and as each fringe had eight threads and five knots, and the letters of the word _tsitsith_ make 600, the total number of commandments was, as before 613. ❋ James Edward Talmage (1897)
Rabbi pronounced the curse his whole frame had shook under the folds of the tallith. ❋ Eliza Orzeszkowa (1876)
The hood of his tallith had slipped from his head on to his shoulders. ❋ Eliza Orzeszkowa (1876)
"Blessed be the Lord who enlightened us with his law and bade us to cover ourselves with the tallith!" ❋ Eliza Orzeszkowa (1876)
Then Jankiel took up the white tallith with the black border, and, wrapping himself in its soft folds, exclaimed: ❋ Eliza Orzeszkowa (1876)
I wrapped myself in the folds of his tallith, and with much emotion listened to his clear and lovely voice. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I see him with his white beard and dark eyebrows, enveloped in his tallith (praying shawl), among the congregation praying in the synagogue, in the town where I was born, Vishniev in Belarus. ❋ Unknown (2010)
When he raised his arm, I thought I could make out other leather straps bound around his wrist; and under his jacket, weren’t those the white fringes of what the Jews call the little tallith showing through? ❋ Unknown (2009)
Women should be as free to pray at the Kottel as men, however what I can’t understand is why women have to put on a Kippa instead of a scarf or a hat, why do women have to put on a tallith while praying at the kottel. ❋ Unknown (2010)
