JFJ Forums - Manly Embroidery

Looks great indeed. Funny how blue it looks in the pictures with you in it. While above that it looks darker multi coloured???

Anyway, last month I hoped to find the shop in Tzfat where I could ''design'' my own tallit. I found the shop, but they don't do it in wool, which is our sephardi custom. So I have to wait a little...
I see she is using wool, but I'm not shure with the silk and linnen etc. Otherwise I might have asked.... to fly one by... Well the blue tzitzit I don't know, the real accepted ones they create here a few kilometers away... I don't have them still (who knows).

Good that you took the corners with the hole in the middle, although the website looks nice, i think others with the hole down in the square will not be halachically aproved...

Well I tie my tzitzit the 10-5-6-5 (haShems Name) way. Although I never found any Talmudic options for it. It's a widely used sephardi custom.

And o.k. indeed is HaShem mySaviour, no doubt about it, not somebody else Cheesygrin

But as is written in that text, don't fear... it's a nice text.

Here is the quickest way to explain the windings...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gematria

Yetzirah231 Wrote:

Looks great indeed. Funny how blue it looks in the pictures with you in it. While above that it looks darker multi coloured???

Anyway, last month I hoped to find the shop in Tzfat where I could ''design'' my own tallit. I found the shop, but they don't do it in wool, which is our sephardi custom. So I have to wait a little...
I see she is using wool, but I'm not shure with the silk and linnen etc. Otherwise I might have asked.... to fly one by... Well the blue tzitzit I don't know, the real accepted ones they create here a few kilometers away... I don't have them still (who knows).

Good that you took the corners with the hole in the middle, although the website looks nice, i think others with the hole down in the square will not be halachically aproved...

Well I tie my tzitzit the 10-5-6-5 (haShems Name) way. Although I never found any Talmudic options for it. It's a widely used sephardi custom.

And o.k. indeed is HaShem mySaviour, no doubt about it, not somebody else Cheesygrin

But as is written in that text, don't fear... it's a nice text.

Yeah,
the light was wierd (tub lights) in the pictures of me with it on.
The light was natural in the photos before I installed them.

Hey, if you are Jewish (or born again) the teckelet Blue is your heritage, and your right! The hebrew nation has waited over 1500 years to rediscover it. Now that you have this rare opportunity you forfathers wished they had, you should where it!

From what I understand, Tzitzits tied in the 10-5-6-5 fashon are considered Kosher too.

Yetzirah231, you should get the wool!
It is so much more..."anointed feeling"... while in prayer, then prideful silk or boring Cotton.
My corners are wool too.

BTW: there is "just something" about having done your own embroidery by hand on the atorah and corners that makes your tallit unique, "trully yours", a real heirloom! And, the process is a prayerful time of meditation upon HaShem's love and glory in your own life.

I found my 3 months of hand embroidery time a wonderful time with the LORD. Don't rob yourself of this blessing by just dropping more cash down for something more fancy that someone else did and that someone else has a copy of...

Also, I did not put on my Tallit until I was standing directy before the Kotel. It was trully and awesome experience!

Thanks Steadfast for Reply,

Well I keep by wool because of our tradition, but actually I'm very happy with it. I had for a while a cotton one, but wool feels just nicer and warmer.
I think Silk looks very nice, and it gives a special feeling too, but still I prefer wool.

I got a few years ago a regular one downtown Jerusalem where I'm very happy with. Not Fancy and most people have look a like's.

In Israel it's more the ''Mashichistim'' fanatic Zionists that want to go back to Israeli tradition, and also start to wear techelet-blue sometimes. But actually, you see most people not wearing it...
Maybe a shame but traditions are rusty... and I still don't have them either...

A selfmade tallith I might wear more at home. Prayer is a communual thing in synagogue and I don't feel like to stand out to much...

HaRav Yisroel ben Avrohom Wrote:

Steadfast Wrote:

I researched it, of course...
Yes, you too can learn to tye your own tzitzits at this site.

I already know how to tie them.

Quote:

http://www.begedivri.com/techelet/tying0.htm

And you can even buy true biblical tekhelet there too.

To be more specific in regard to my question, how do you (or the web site you quoted) know:

(a) That the tzitzis mentioned in the Torah are as you have them on your Tallis and

(b) That there should be 7, 8, 11 and 13 windings with two knots in between?

I guess he didn't answer because there is only one answer.

The Oral Law which I'm sure he rejects, or only adheres to parts of (the ones he thinks apply).

Sorry if I stole your thunder!

searchinmyroots Wrote:

HaRav Yisroel ben Avrohom Wrote:

Steadfast Wrote:

I researched it, of course...
Yes, you too can learn to tye your own tzitzits at this site.

I already know how to tie them.

Quote:

http://www.begedivri.com/techelet/tying0.htm

And you can even buy true biblical tekhelet there too.

To be more specific in regard to my question, how do you (or the web site you quoted) know:

(a) That the tzitzis mentioned in the Torah are as you have them on your Tallis and

(b) That there should be 7, 8, 11 and 13 windings with two knots in between?

I guess he didn't answer because there is only one answer.

The Oral Law which I'm sure he rejects, or only adheres to parts of (the ones he thinks apply).

Sorry if I stole your thunder!

Not at all. You were right on the nail!

nice work wish I had your patience...

Lol

prophet Wrote:

nice work wish I had your patience...

Lol

That's ok...I wish I had your ministry! Redface