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# Some people have the minhag to wear a tallit with a silver atara (band) that beautifies the top of the tallit. Others refrain from adding this silver adornment to the tallit because a halachic question with this practice. However, most poskim hold that there's no concern at all with wearing this silver adornment.<ref>Aruch Hashulchan 8:10 writes that some people mistakenly think that the main mitzvah is the part of the tallit that is worn over one's head. However, in truth the part of the tallit that is drapped over the body is the main part of the tallit. To avoid this mistake, Aruch Hashulchan advises against having a silver band on top of a tallit so as not to give extra importance to the top of the tallit. Piskei Teshuvot (8 fnt. 121) quotes the Artzot Hachayim who didn't like the practice of having a silver atara. He writes that to avoid this question some people put a silver band on top and the middle of the tallit. Igrot Moshe OC 5:20:3 writes that there's no reason to be strict to avoid wearing a silver band on top of a tallit. Mishna Halachot 18:15 also indicates that it is a nice thing to have a silver atara and not a problem. Rav Mordechai Eliyahu used to wear a silver atara when being a sandak at a brit milah (Chut Hameshulash p. 19 fnt. 47). Rav Chaim Kanievsky (Daat Noteh 2:78) holds that it is a fine practice to wear a silver atara on a tallit. There he explains that it isn't a binding family minhag if someone's father wore a tallit with or without a silver atara. If someone did it is merely that they did so in order to beautify the mitzvah but not because it is a minhag. | # Some people have the minhag to wear a tallit with a silver atara (band) that beautifies the top of the tallit. Others refrain from adding this silver adornment to the tallit because a halachic question with this practice. However, most poskim hold that there's no concern at all with wearing this silver adornment.<ref>Aruch Hashulchan 8:10 writes that some people mistakenly think that the main mitzvah is the part of the tallit that is worn over one's head. However, in truth the part of the tallit that is drapped over the body is the main part of the tallit. To avoid this mistake, Aruch Hashulchan advises against having a silver band on top of a tallit so as not to give extra importance to the top of the tallit. Piskei Teshuvot (8 fnt. 121) quotes the Artzot Hachayim who didn't like the practice of having a silver atara. He writes that to avoid this question some people put a silver band on top and the middle of the tallit. Igrot Moshe OC 5:20:3 writes that there's no reason to be strict to avoid wearing a silver band on top of a tallit. Mishna Halachot 18:15 also indicates that it is a nice thing to have a silver atara and not a problem. Rav Mordechai Eliyahu used to wear a silver atara when being a sandak at a brit milah (Chut Hameshulash p. 19 fnt. 47). Rav Chaim Kanievsky (Daat Noteh 2:78) holds that it is a fine practice to wear a silver atara on a tallit. There he explains that it isn't a binding family minhag if someone's father wore a tallit with or without a silver atara. If someone did it is merely that they did so in order to beautify the mitzvah but not because it is a minhag. [https://www.yutorah.org/sidebar/lecturedata/1035044/Mishna-Berurah-#9%E2%80%949:6%E2%80%9311:1%E2%80%94Tzitzis-on-Different-Types-of-Begadim,-Niputz-Lishma Rav Hershel Schachter (Mishna Brurah 9:6 min 16)] concludes that a person should not wear a silver atara unless his tallit has an atara on top and also an atara in the middle of the tallit. </ref> | ||
# It is a nice practice to have a collar on top of the tallit that indicates which side is the top so that a person doesn't accidentally wear the tallit upside down. Some poskim hold that it isn't necessary and it is fine to wear a tallit upside down.<ref>Ben Ish Chai (Beresheet, Shana Rishona, n. 8)</ref> | # It is a nice practice to have a collar on top of the tallit that indicates which side is the top so that a person doesn't accidentally wear the tallit upside down. Some poskim hold that it isn't necessary and it is fine to wear a tallit upside down.<ref>Ben Ish Chai (Beresheet, Shana Rishona, n. 8)</ref> | ||
#The minhag is to wear a tallit with an atara made of cloth.<ref>Mishna Brurah 8:9. Chut Hameshulash p. 19 quotes Rabbi Eli Mansour and Chacham Baruch that the Syrian minhag was specifically to have a tallit with a cloth atara and not a silver one. </ref> This was also the practice of Rav Ovadia Yosef and Rav Yom Tov Yedid.<ref>Chut Hameshulash p. 19. This can be observed from [https://www.yeshiva.org.il/wiki/index.php/%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%91_%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%91%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94_%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%A3 pictures of Rav Ovadia].</ref> Indeed, this is the minhag of the world.<ref>Chut Hameshulash p. 29. This is in opposition Rabbi Yitzchak Abadi (Or Yitzchak 1:9, cited by Chut Hameshulash) that a person should have a tallit with no atara (even from cloth) at all. </ref> | #The minhag is to wear a tallit with an atara made of cloth.<ref>Mishna Brurah 8:9. Chut Hameshulash p. 19 quotes Rabbi Eli Mansour and Chacham Baruch that the Syrian minhag was specifically to have a tallit with a cloth atara and not a silver one. </ref> This was also the practice of Rav Ovadia Yosef and Rav Yom Tov Yedid.<ref>Chut Hameshulash p. 19. This can be observed from [https://www.yeshiva.org.il/wiki/index.php/%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%91_%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%91%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94_%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%A3 pictures of Rav Ovadia].</ref> Indeed, this is the minhag of the world.<ref>Chut Hameshulash p. 29. This is in opposition Rabbi Yitzchak Abadi (Or Yitzchak 1:9, cited by Chut Hameshulash) that a person should have a tallit with no atara (even from cloth) at all. </ref> | ||
