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# One should not make a bracha on a garment that is open only half way on it's sides. <ref> Halacha Brurah 10:16 </ref> | # One should not make a bracha on a garment that is open only half way on it's sides. <ref> Halacha Brurah 10:16 </ref> | ||
==How to Tie Tzitzit== | |||
# Tzitzit without techelet is tied in four sections with a double knot before and after each section. Between each section one white string is wound around the others. In the first section it is wound 7 times, the next 8 times, then 11 and 13. Altogether there are 5 knots and 39 windings.<ref>Shulchan Aruch OC 11:14. Tosfot Menachot 39a s.v. lo writes that we don't have between 7 and 13 sections as does the Rambam because today we don't have techelet. Alternatively, we have between 7 and 13 windings for each section. Mishna Brurah 11:70 explains that the windings add up to 39 which is the gematria of Hashem Eched. Tosfot explains that there are 5 knots between Tzitzit is gematria 600, and together with the 8 strings and 5 knots it represents 613, since Tzitzit is equivalent to all the mitzvot.</ref> | |||
# According to the Rambam, Tzitzit with Techelet is tied with one winding of white and two of techelet for each section and there are 7 sections each with a knot before and afterwards. Altogether there are 8 knots and 21 windings.<ref>Rambam (Tzitzit 1:7-8)</ref> | |||
==Tying Requirements== | ==Tying Requirements== | ||
# 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> | # 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> | ||
