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#Leather garments are exempt from the obligation of tzitzit, even on a rabbinic level.<ref>Gemara Menachot 40b. Shulchan Aruch 10:4</ref> | #Leather garments are exempt from the obligation of tzitzit, even on a rabbinic level.<ref>Gemara Menachot 40b. Shulchan Aruch 10:4</ref> | ||
#Along the same lines, some poskim equate leather with synthetic materials (such as polyester, nylon, and rayon) and maintain that they are also exempt from tzitzit.<ref>Rav Moshe Feinstein in Igres Moshe 2:1</ref> Others differentiate between woven synthetic materials, which should be treated like cotton, and non woven synthetic materials, which should be treated like leather.<ref>Rav Tzvi Pesach Frank in Har Tzvi 1, 9</ref> Therefore, it is best not to use synthetic materials for the mitzvah, but if one does he should refrain from making a bracha on it.<ref>Tzitz Eliezer 12:3; Ohr LeZion 2:3</ref> | #Along the same lines, some poskim equate leather with synthetic materials (such as polyester, nylon, and rayon) and maintain that they are also exempt from tzitzit.<ref>Rav Moshe Feinstein in Igres Moshe 2:1</ref> Others differentiate between woven synthetic materials, which should be treated like cotton, and non woven synthetic materials, which should be treated like leather.<ref>Rav Tzvi Pesach Frank in Har Tzvi 1, 9</ref> Therefore, it is best not to use synthetic materials for the mitzvah, but if one does he should refrain from making a bracha on it.<ref>Tzitz Eliezer 12:3; Ohr LeZion 2:3</ref> | ||
== Tzitzit strings == | |||
# One should not cut Tzitzit with a knife however it’s permissible to rip it one’s teeth. <Ref> Yalkut Yosef (Sherit Yosef vol 1 pg 205; Kitzur S”A 8:14) </ref> | |||
# One must check one's tzitzit (the strings from the edge until the knots and the strings after the knots) daily before making a bracha on them. <ref> S"A 8:9 writes clearly that one must check one's tzitzit before making the bracha so that one doesn't make a bracha levatala in case the tzitzit are ripped. Mishna Brurah 8:21 adds that there's also a need to check the strings close to the talit before the knots. Yalkut Yosef (Hilchot Tzitzit pg 80) writes that the minhag is to be lenient as this halacha is only a midat chasidut not to make a bracha levatala. </ref> | |||
# One shouldn't miss Tefillah Betzibuur because of this checking as long as knows the strings were complete yesterday. <Ref> Mishna Brurah 8:22, Yalkut Yosef (Hilchot Tzitzit pg 84)</ref> | |||
# One can check the tzitziyot before putting it its case/bag and not have to check again in the morning before making the bracha. <ref> Mishna Brurah 8:22, Yalkut Yosef (Hilchot Tzitzit pg 84) </ref> | |||
# One should separate the strings of the Tzitzit before making the bracha, however if one's late to shul, one doesn't have to. <Ref> S”A 8:7, Buir Halacha D"H Tzarich writes that surely it's preferable to seperate the tzitziyot before making the bracha because the Gra considers this a certain obligation. However, Mishna Brurah 8:18 writes that if one's late to shul one doesn't have to seperate the strings. </ref> | |||
== Size Requirements == | == Size Requirements == | ||
