Nothing warms the heart more than seeing your child wearing tzitzit for the first time. There is something very moving about those moments, when a small child connects to the great tradition of Am Yisrael — a rooted tradition reaching

Israelis moved to online shopping long ago, and a great deal of what we buy is bought online. By various estimates the average Israeli spends a few hundred shekels a month on online purchases, not counting orders from supermarket chains.

Plants are green, the sky is blue and the earth is brown. Do these colors mean anything? According to Judaism, the answer is yes. Colors in Judaism are not incidental but carry deep meaning. Sometimes that meaning is simple and

If there is one garment most identified with keeping Torah and mitzvot, it is the kippah. We use it to show that we are observant, and to recognize who else is. Yet there are many Jews who do not wear

Are children obligated in tzitzit according to halachah? The simple answer is no. From the letter of the law, minors are exempt from all positive time-bound mitzvot, tzitzit among them. There is, however, an obligation of “chinuch” that rests on

You have celebrated his birthday year after year, but this year is going to be different and special. Thirteen is not just another birthday but an important stage in the life of every Jewish boy. From bar mitzvah age onwards

Buying a tallit gadol or katan is a significant moment, whether it is a first tallit for a bar mitzvah or a wedding, or a replacement for the one you have been using. For many, though, the world of tallit

How many times has your tzitzit bothered you against your skin? How many times has it failed to sit quite the way you wanted, or pulled to one side of its own accord? A tzitzit undershirt can be the solution

Even if you have never heard anyone use the phrase “a tallit that is entirely Tekhelet”, it is clear that it refers to someone who claims to be perfect and without blemish — a genuine Tekhelet tallit. The phrase is

Tekhelet — wool dyed a distinctive shade of blue — became a central symbol in ancient Jewish culture, and has returned to use in our own day in the mitzvah of ptil Tekhelet placed on a tallit katan or a

How much does a tallit cost? It may sound like a simple, almost technical question, but behind it lies a whole world of decisions, personal taste and family tradition. Between an ordinary tallit katan with Tekhelet and a mehudar tallit

We decided to look into this properly, sort the subject out and answer once and for all the question of why we wear tzitzit. So hold tight to the four corners of your garment, because we are setting out on

In an age when most of what we wear is modern, Western clothing, often made of synthetic and impersonal fabrics, there is one garment that connects us to the tradition of the generations and carries us back in time to

Modern life pulls us in every direction. We are flooded with stimuli, our attention is easily diverted, and we often find ourselves halfway through doing something without quite remembering why. The mind wanders while the body acts. Against the challenge

In this article we look closely at the mitzvah of tzitzit for children, discuss the right time to begin educating a child in the mitzvah, and explain why instilling it from a young age matters — touching on the halachic,

Washing a tallit is not like washing an ordinary garment: it is delicate work that needs attention to the products used, to the right technique, and to protecting the tzitzit strings. In this article we set out the recommended ways

Parashat Tzitzit is the passage in the Torah that concludes Parashat Shelach Lecha in Sefer Bamidbar. This short passage, just five pesukim long, deals with the mitzvah of placing tzitzit with ptil Tekhelet on the four corners of a garment,

In the Torah, Am Yisrael is commanded in 613 mitzvot. Some are directed to men alone, others to women alone; some belong to kohanim, others only Yisraelim can keep; some depend on the person and others on time and place.

The mitzvah of tzitzit is one of the loveliest and most distinctive mitzvot in the tradition of Israel, and the moment a child first begins to keep it is a moving one, remembered in the family as joyful and celebratory.

Wrapping in a tallit gadol has held a central place in Judaism for many years, accompanying the person davening as a symbol of kedushah and of spiritual connection with the Creator — though not everyone knows how to put one

Keeping the mitzvah of tzitzit day to day means balancing the common practice of wearing a tallit katan all day — in the heat and when you perspire — against the practical need to keep the garment clean and in

In the Jewish wedding world, the question “who buys the tallit for the chatan?” causes no small amount of confusion among the families of the couple. This ancient custom of wrapping oneself in a tallit at the wedding carries deep

Alongside the tefillin, and somewhere between the sweets being thrown and the leining, the tallit gadol is one of the symbols of the bar mitzvah day in many Jewish communities. A tallit for a bar mitzvah accompanies the bar mitzvah

When it is hot outside, a tzitzit undershirt is the ideal solution. Unlike ordinary wool or cotton tzitzit, made from fabric that does not breathe, a tzitzit undershirt is made from a lighter, summer-weight fabric. So although a tzitzit undershirt

Many Jews who want to keep the mitzvah of tzitzit properly wear cotton tzitzit with ptil Tekhelet, or wool tzitzit with ptil Tekhelet. Wearing a tallit katan (“tzitzit”) under an ordinary shirt is the most common way of keeping the

The tallit gadol, one of the best-known and most important symbols in Jewish tradition, accompanies the chatan on his wedding day. A mehudar tallit for a chatan wraps him and the kallah in kedushah and adds a dimension of spirituality

Preparations for Shabbat sometimes begin days in advance — shopping at the market, a visit to the butcher, buying special delicacies for Shabbat. All of it, of course, in order to keep the mitzvah of oneg Shabbat as well as

Tekhelet tzitzit: obligation or recommendation? In any shul you walk into, in Israel or around the world, you will see people davening wrapped in a tallit gadol. This is how Jews have kept the mitzvah of tzitzit for generations —

Buying a new tallit is an important step towards keeping the mitzvah of tzitzit properly, and also part of celebrating a Jewish simchah properly — the simchah of a bar mitzvah boy, the simchah of a chatan on his wedding

If you are looking for a tallit for a boy reaching bar mitzvah age, or as a gift for a chatan ahead of his wedding, or simply to replace an old tallit with a new one, the sheer range of

The beauty of Tekhelet leaves no doubt that this is a unique heavenly color with nothing to match it. But ever since Tekhelet first appeared, as far back as the days of the Talmud, people have tried to produce substitutes

For many hundreds of years, every tallit Jews wore had white strings only — the result of decrees and persecution. But since Tekhelet was rediscovered in our generation by prominent rabbis and researchers, the strings on the four corners of

The excitement has reached its peak and you have bought a new tallit or tefillin for a bar mitzvah or a wedding — and now all that remains is to work out how to look after them properly. So how

If you are interested in tzitzit with Tekhelet and are wondering how much Tekhelet tzitzit costs, we have put together a short, detailed guide explaining the types of strings and tallitot, the various prices, and what is worth knowing before

What exactly is the source of the Tekhelet of the Torah and of the ancient world? For many years the answer to that question was unclear. More than a thousand years ago, in the wake of Roman persecution of the