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==Tallit Katan== | ==Tallit Katan== | ||
# | # Although the mitzva only applies when one is wearing a four-cornered garment, one should go out of his way to a wear a four-cornered garment and affix strings to them so that he can fulfill this mitzva.<ref> Rambam Hilchot Tzitzit 3:11, Shulchan Aruch 24:1, Aruch Hashulchan 8:2, Yechave Daat 4:2, Tzitz Eliezer 8:4, Igors Moshe OC 4:4 </ref> | ||
# The tallit katan should be put on in the morning following Netilat Yadayim.<Ref> Mishna Berura 8:1, Kaf Hachaim 8:1 </ref> | # The tallit katan should be put on in the morning following Netilat Yadayim.<Ref> Mishna Berura 8:1, Kaf Hachaim 8:1 </ref> | ||
# Technically a tallit katan (tzitzit) should be put on like a tallit gadol by wrapping it around one's head and reciting "Lhitatef Btzitzit". The minhag, however, is not to do so but rather simply to put on the tallit katan and recite "Al Mitzvat Tzitzit".<ref>Piskei Teshuvot 8:11 based on Shulchan Aruch 8:3, Halacha Berura 16:1</ref> Someone who is going to wear a tallit gadol does not recite a beracha on a tallit katan. Rather, the beracha on the tallit gadol covers the tallit katan as well. <ref> Mishnah Berurah 8:24 and 30, Chayei Adam 11:9, Kaf Hachaim 8:61, Aruch hashulchan 8:16, Yechave Daat 5:2 and Halichot Olam Lech Lecha 1:4</ref> See [[#Text of Bracha]] for more about the bracha. | # Technically a tallit katan (tzitzit) should be put on like a tallit gadol by wrapping it around one's head and reciting "Lhitatef Btzitzit". The minhag, however, is not to do so but rather simply to put on the tallit katan and recite "Al Mitzvat Tzitzit".<ref>Piskei Teshuvot 8:11 based on Shulchan Aruch 8:3, Halacha Berura 16:1</ref> Someone who is going to wear a tallit gadol does not recite a beracha on a tallit katan. Rather, the beracha on the tallit gadol covers the tallit katan as well. <ref> Mishnah Berurah 8:24 and 30, Chayei Adam 11:9, Kaf Hachaim 8:61, Aruch hashulchan 8:16, Yechave Daat 5:2 and Halichot Olam Lech Lecha 1:4</ref> See [[#Text of Bracha]] for more about the bracha. | ||
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===Reciting Pesukim after Putting on the Tallit=== | ===Reciting Pesukim after Putting on the Tallit=== | ||
# If one follows the general practice of the Arizal, Ben Ish Chai, and Mishna Brurah to wrap one's head before draping it over one's shoulders and body, then one shouldn't recite the customary pesukim until after one drapes it over one's shoulder and body.<ref>[https://itorah.com/lecture/audio/rabbi-eli-mansour/sisit-how-to-properly-put-on-a-tallit-gadol/3112/6 Rabbi Mansour on (Daily Halacha 7/19/2016)]</ref> | # If one follows the general practice of the Arizal, Ben Ish Chai, and Mishna Brurah to wrap one's head before draping it over one's shoulders and body, then one shouldn't recite the customary pesukim until after one drapes it over one's shoulder and body.<ref>[https://itorah.com/lecture/audio/rabbi-eli-mansour/sisit-how-to-properly-put-on-a-tallit-gadol/3112/6 Rabbi Mansour on (Daily Halacha 7/19/2016)]</ref> | ||
# | # Many have the custom to recite the pesukim of Tehillim 36:8-11 as follows:<ref>[https://he.wikisource.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%99%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A8:%D7%AA%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%9C%D7%95#%D7%99%D7%90 Wikitext]</ref> מַה יָּקָר חַסְדְּךָ אֱלֹהִים, וּבְנֵי אָדָם בְּצֵל כְּנָפֶיךָ יֶחֱסָיוּן. יִרְוְיֻן מִדֶּשֶׁן בֵּיתֶךָ, וְנַחַל עֲדָנֶיךָ תַשְׁקֵם. כִּי עִמְּךָ מְקוֹר חַיִּים, בְּאוֹרְךָ נִרְאֶה אוֹר. מְשֹׁךְ חַסְדְּךָ לְיֹדְעֶיךָ, וְצִדְקָתְךָ לְיִשְׁרֵי לֵב.<ref>See Kaf Hachaim 8:8. Magen Avot (Orach Chaim 8:3), Ateret Avot 2:10 records this as the practice of Moroccans. Chacham Ovadia Yosef would meditate upon these pesukim but not recite them aloud (see Yabea Omer 7:1 and Halichot Olam 1:Bereishit Halacha 3</ref> | ||
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===Shehecheyanu=== | ===Shehecheyanu=== | ||
#If one buys a new Tallit, a [[Shehecheyanu]] is recited. <ref>Shulchan Aruch 22:1, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch of Rav Rephael Baruch Toledano, siman 9, the proper time for Tzitzit and who is obligated, seif 5 </ref> There is a split between Ashkenazi poskim as to whether to say the bracha prior<ref>Baer Heitev 22:2 </ref> to putting on the Tallit or after<ref>Mishna Brurah 22:3 </ref> | #If one buys a new Tallit, a [[Shehecheyanu]] is recited.<ref>Shulchan Aruch 22:1, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch of Rav Rephael Baruch Toledano, siman 9, the proper time for Tzitzit and who is obligated, seif 5 </ref> There is a split between Ashkenazi poskim as to whether to say the bracha prior<ref>Baer Heitev 22:2 </ref> to putting on the Tallit or after,<ref>Mishna Brurah 22:3 </ref> Sephardim should say it after. <ref>Birkei Yosef 22:2. </ref> | ||
#The bracha may be recited as long as someone is still wearing it for their first time. <ref>Halacha Brurah 22:7, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch of Rav Rephael Baruch Toledano, siman 9, the proper time for Tzitzit and who is obligated, seif 5 </ref> | #The bracha may be recited as long as someone is still wearing it for their first time. <ref>Halacha Brurah 22:7, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch of Rav Rephael Baruch Toledano, siman 9, the proper time for Tzitzit and who is obligated, seif 5 </ref> | ||
#One should recite the bracha on a new Tallit Katan if it brings one joy. <ref>Ben Ish Chai Bereishit Halacha 7. </ref> | #One should recite the bracha on a new Tallit Katan if it brings one joy.<ref>Ben Ish Chai Bereishit Halacha 7. </ref> | ||
#If one places new strings on an old garment a [[Shehecheyanu]] is not recited. <ref>Mishna Brurah 22:2, Kaf Hachayim 22:3 </ref> | #If one places new strings on an old garment a [[Shehecheyanu]] is not recited.<ref>Mishna Brurah 22:2, Kaf Hachayim 22:3 </ref> | ||
#One who wears a Tallit that has been worn before, even if this is his first time fulfilling the mitzvah does not recite a [[Shehecheyanu]]. <ref>Sh"t Yechave Daat 2:31 </ref> | #One who wears a Tallit that has been worn before, even if this is his first time fulfilling the mitzvah does not recite a [[Shehecheyanu]].<ref>Sh"t Yechave Daat 2:31 </ref> | ||
#[[Shehecheyanu]] should not be recited if one acquired a new Tallit Katan. <ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch of Rav Rephael Baruch Toledano, siman 9, the proper time for Tzitzit and who is obligated, seif 6 </ref> | #[[Shehecheyanu]] should not be recited if one acquired a new Tallit Katan.<ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch of Rav Rephael Baruch Toledano, siman 9, the proper time for Tzitzit and who is obligated, seif 6 </ref> | ||
=== A Silver Atara === | |||
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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. [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> | |||
#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> | |||
#If someone has a silver atara some poskim advise ensuring that it doesn't extend more than a tefach from one's face on Shabbat so as not to create a temporary tent.<ref>Sh"t Maamar Mordechai 4:46 (v. 4 p. 179)</ref> | |||
#Some poskim write that if someone has a tallit with a silver atara and another one without an atara, they should wear the one with a silver atara for Shabbat as part of kavod Shabbat (honoring Shabbat).<ref>Nishmat Shabbat 1:277</ref> | |||
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