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== Source of Requirement == | == Source of Requirement == | ||
# There is a positive Torah commandment to place Tzitzit strands on each corner of a four cornered garment that one wears. <ref> Bamidbar 15:38; Devarim 22:12, Rambam Sefer Hamitzvot mitzvat aseh 14.</ref> This obligation extends to any garment with at least 4 corners, for instance, a 5 or 6 cornered garment. <ref> Aruch HaShulchan 10:1 </ref> On such garments with more than 4 corners, one should only attach Tzitzit to four of the corners. <ref> Aruch HaShulchan 10:2 </ref> The corners chosen should be the corners that are the farthest away from each other. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 10:1 </ref> However, bedieved, one may make a bracha | # There is a positive Torah commandment to place Tzitzit strands on each corner of a four cornered garment that one wears. <ref> Bamidbar 15:38; Devarim 22:12, Rambam Sefer Hamitzvot mitzvat aseh 14.</ref> This obligation extends to any garment with at least 4 corners, for instance, a 5 or 6 cornered garment. <ref> Aruch HaShulchan 10:1 </ref> On such garments with more than 4 corners, one should only attach Tzitzit to four of the corners. <ref> Aruch HaShulchan 10:2 </ref> The corners chosen should be the corners that are the farthest away from each other. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 10:1 </ref> However, bedieved, one may make a bracha on the Tzitzit, even if they were not placed at the farthest corners of the garment. <ref> Mishna Brurah 10:5 </ref> | ||
# | # Technically, there is no obligation to wear a four cornered garment in the first place.<ref>Rambam Hilchot Tzitzit 3:11; Tur 24:1; Shulchan Aruch 24:1</ref> Nevertheless, it is certainly proper and correct to observe this important mitzvah by wearing Tzitzit all day.<ref>Rambam Hilchot Tzitzit 3:11; Tur 24:1; Shulchan Aruch 24:1; Rav Ovadya Yosef in Yechave Daat 4:2. See Mordechai (Menchot no. 945) writes that a person should endeavor to obligate oneself in the mitzvah of tzitzit just like Moshe longed to enter Israel in order to fulfill the mitzvot there (see Gemara Sotah 14a). </ref>Additionally, the accepted minhag is to wear Tzitzit and one should not break from this minhag. <ref>Rav Moshe Feinstein in Igres Moshe 4:4 </ref> | ||
== People Obligated in Tzitzit == | == People Obligated in Tzitzit == |