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# Towels are exempt from tzitzit. <ref> Biur Halacha 10: "soder" </ref> | # Towels are exempt from tzitzit. <ref> Biur Halacha 10: "soder" </ref> | ||
# If one wears more than one four-cornered garment they are all obligated in tzitzit but the beracha is only recited on the first one that he puts on. But if one recited the beracha and only had in mind to wear one four-cornered garment and then changed his mind and put on another one, he must recite a new beracha. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 8:12 </ref> | # If one wears more than one four-cornered garment they are all obligated in tzitzit but the beracha is only recited on the first one that he puts on. But if one recited the beracha and only had in mind to wear one four-cornered garment and then changed his mind and put on another one, he must recite a new beracha. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 8:12 </ref> | ||
==Borrowed Tallit== | |||
# It is permissible to recite the beracha on a borrowed tallit. <ref> Ben Ish Chai Lech Lecha Halacha 5 </ref> | |||
==Checking the Tzitzit== | |||
# One should check the tzitzit to make sure they are not tangled and they are kosher before putting it on. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 8:7, Rambam Hilchot Tzitzit 1:8. Ben Ish Chai Bereishit Halacha 3 writes that if one checked it and then placed it in its bag, he doesn't have to check the next time he puts it on. </ref> | |||
# One may untangle tzitzit on shabbat, unless they have never been worn before, in which case it would be considered mitaken. <ref> Sh"t Yabia Omer OC 5:3 </ref> | |||
# If checking the tzitzit will cause somebody to be late to praying, one can assume that they are kosher and make a beracha. <ref> Sh"t Otzrot Yosef 1:26 </ref> | |||
==Tuck In or Out== | ==Tuck In or Out== | ||
# Some ashkenazim have the minhag to tuck their strings in and some leave them out. <ref> Mishna Berura 8:26 was strongly against those who wear their tzitzit in and says that by doing so you are disgracing mitzvot and adds that if you received a gift from the king you would surely wear it outside to show off to others. This is the psak of S"A Harav 8:18, and the Magen Avraham 8:13. Aruch HaShulchan OC 8:17, 23:2 says that in many communities in eastern Europe they would took the strings in but he says this isn't really correct. In Nefesh HaRav page 105 Rabbi Herschel Schachter says that some have the minhag to tuck the strings into their pockets or wrap it around the belt. </ref> The sephardi minhag is to wear them tucked in. <ref> Sh"t Yechave Daat 2:1, Sh"t Yaskil Avdi 5:3 and 8:2, Rabbi Shalom Messas in Shemesh U'Magen OC 2:74 based on the Arizal quoting in Pri Etz Chaim Shaat Tzitzit 1. Rav Yaakov Hillel writes in Gevurat HaAri page 137 that the strings should be revealed based on the Arizal (Shaar Hakavanot 7c and Olat Tamid 39a) </ref> A sephardic boy can wear his tzitzit out if it will help him with his yirat shamayim or if he is in an ashkenazi yeshiva and feels uncomfortable. <ref> Sh"t Otzrot Yosef 1:27, Sh"t Or Litzion 2:2:2 </ref> | # Some ashkenazim have the minhag to tuck their strings in and some leave them out. <ref> Mishna Berura 8:26 was strongly against those who wear their tzitzit in and says that by doing so you are disgracing mitzvot and adds that if you received a gift from the king you would surely wear it outside to show off to others. This is the psak of S"A Harav 8:18, and the Magen Avraham 8:13. Aruch HaShulchan OC 8:17, 23:2 says that in many communities in eastern Europe they would took the strings in but he says this isn't really correct. In Nefesh HaRav page 105 Rabbi Herschel Schachter says that some have the minhag to tuck the strings into their pockets or wrap it around the belt. </ref> The sephardi minhag is to wear them tucked in. <ref> Sh"t Yechave Daat 2:1, Sh"t Yaskil Avdi 5:3 and 8:2, Rabbi Shalom Messas in Shemesh U'Magen OC 2:74 based on the Arizal quoting in Pri Etz Chaim Shaat Tzitzit 1. Rav Yaakov Hillel writes in Gevurat HaAri page 137 that the strings should be revealed based on the Arizal (Shaar Hakavanot 7c and Olat Tamid 39a) </ref> A sephardic boy can wear his tzitzit out if it will help him with his yirat shamayim or if he is in an ashkenazi yeshiva and feels uncomfortable. <ref> Sh"t Otzrot Yosef 1:27, Sh"t Or Litzion 2:2:2 </ref> | ||
