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## Another option is simply to recite the bracha and wear the tallit normally over one's shoulders without wrapping one's head at all.<ref>Shulchan Aruch O.C. 8:2 rules like the Baal Haitur as does the Taz 8:2, Nachalat Tzvi 8:2, Maamar Mordechai 8:2, Olot Tamid 8:2, and Ateret Tzvi 8:2.</ref> This is the Tunisian practice.<ref>Ateret Avot v. 1 p. 34 citing Aley Hadas 1:26 and Shulchan Aruch Hamekusar 8:17</ref> | ## Another option is simply to recite the bracha and wear the tallit normally over one's shoulders without wrapping one's head at all.<ref>Shulchan Aruch O.C. 8:2 rules like the Baal Haitur as does the Taz 8:2, Nachalat Tzvi 8:2, Maamar Mordechai 8:2, Olot Tamid 8:2, and Ateret Tzvi 8:2.</ref> This is the Tunisian practice.<ref>Ateret Avot v. 1 p. 34 citing Aley Hadas 1:26 and Shulchan Aruch Hamekusar 8:17</ref> | ||
===Throwing the Strings Over One's Shoulder=== | ===Throwing the Strings Over One's Shoulder=== | ||
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# While wrapping one's head in the Tallit the practice is to take the tzitzit strings and throw them over one's left shoulder.<ref>Bear Heitiv 8:3, Mishna Brurah 8:4. Nonetheless, in the Shaar Hatziyun 8:11 he takes issue with the Bear Heitiv and asks that seemingly there should always be two strings in from and two in back as Magen Avraham 8:4 insists. Kaf Hachaim 8:7 indeed quotes a large dispute about this point whether when wrapping one's head all the strings should be thrown over one's left shoulder or the two rights should be thrown over one's shoulder and the left two strings should be left in front of one's body. He concludes with the Ben Ish Chai Shana Rishona Beresheet n. 5 that ideally one should do both. First have the two strings of the right side thrown to the back over one's left shoulder, wait the time it takes to walk 4 amot, and then throw the additional 2 strings of the left side over one's left shoulder and wait the time it takes 4 amot.</ref> | # While wrapping one's head in the Tallit the practice is to take the tzitzit strings and throw them over one's left shoulder.<ref>Bear Heitiv 8:3, Mishna Brurah 8:4. Nonetheless, in the Shaar Hatziyun 8:11 he takes issue with the Bear Heitiv and asks that seemingly there should always be two strings in from and two in back as Magen Avraham 8:4 insists. Kaf Hachaim 8:7 indeed quotes a large dispute about this point whether when wrapping one's head all the strings should be thrown over one's left shoulder or the two rights should be thrown over one's shoulder and the left two strings should be left in front of one's body. He concludes with the Ben Ish Chai Shana Rishona Beresheet n. 5 that ideally one should do both. First have the two strings of the right side thrown to the back over one's left shoulder, wait the time it takes to walk 4 amot, and then throw the additional 2 strings of the left side over one's left shoulder and wait the time it takes 4 amot.</ref> | ||
# The alternative practice is to first throw the right 2 strings over one's left shoulder while leaving the left 2 strings in front of one's body. The strings are left in that position for the time it takes to talk 4 [[amot]]. Then the left 2 strings are throw over the left shoulder as well and left there for the time it takes to walk 4 [[amot]].<ref>Ben Ish Chai Shana Rishona Beresheet n. 5. Rav Dovid Yosef in Orchot Maran 2:4 writes that such was the practice of Rav Ovadia Yosef to wrap his head and leave two strings in front and two in back like the Ben Ish Chai.</ref> | # The alternative practice is to first throw the right 2 strings over one's left shoulder while leaving the left 2 strings in front of one's body. The strings are left in that position for the time it takes to talk 4 [[amot]]. Then the left 2 strings are throw over the left shoulder as well and left there for the time it takes to walk 4 [[amot]].<ref>Ben Ish Chai Shana Rishona Beresheet n. 5. Rav Dovid Yosef in Orchot Maran 2:4 writes that such was the practice of Rav Ovadia Yosef to wrap his head and leave two strings in front and two in back like the Ben Ish Chai.</ref> | ||
