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==Color Requirements== | ==Color Requirements== | ||
# Some say that the strings of the Tallit should be the same color as the Tallit itself and the Sephardic custom is to hold so.<ref> Ben Ish Chai Noach Halacha 11 </ref> However, Ashkenazim do not have this custom and wear white strings on their Tallit in all cases. <ref> Shulchan Aruch | # Some say that the strings of the Tallit should be the same color as the Tallit itself and the Sephardic custom is to hold so.<ref> Ben Ish Chai Noach Halacha 11 </ref> However, Ashkenazim do not have this custom and wear white strings on their Tallit in all cases. <ref> Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 9:5 and the Rama </ref> | ||
==Garment Requiremnts== | ==Garment Requiremnts== | ||
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==Tying Requirements== | ==Tying Requirements== | ||
# Lechatchilla we are machmir and follow Rabbeinu Tam <ref>Shulchan Aruch | # Lechatchilla we are machmir and follow Rabbeinu Tam <ref>Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 14a</ref> for boys beneath the age of 13 and women not to tie Tzitzit for a man whose obligation it is to wear them. Though in principle women and minors are kosher for making kosher Tzitzit, Rabbeinu Tam holds that only the gavra who is obligated in the mitzvah should create the object of the mitzvah. Boys beneath the age of 13 may tie Tzitzit for another boy under the age of 13, since their mitzvah is merely one of [[chinuch]]. <ref>Rabbi Hershel Schachter in Bikvei HaTzoan (p. 10)</ref> | ||
# One may tie the Tzitzit strings onto the Tzitzit garment at night, even though one will not recite the bracha until putting them on the next morning. <ref> Sh"t Yabia Omer OC 8:3 </ref> | # One may tie the Tzitzit strings onto the Tzitzit garment at night, even though one will not recite the bracha until putting them on the next morning. <ref> Sh"t Yabia Omer OC 8:3 </ref> | ||
