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  • I am interested as to how you aquiered the last name katan?.

    inkblurt · Omni Magazine Shrine 2003

  • Such distinctions imply that ultimately they are halakhically similar to other sub-categories of man - or womanhood, such as katan or ketanah (male and female minors), which affect a person’s halakhic rights and obligations, but not their gender identity.

    Gender Identity In Halakhic Discourse. 2009

  • I first saw a tallit katan or met someone who wore a kipa all the time at Kutz camp, in 1974.

    YOUR HEAD A SPLODE | Jewschool 2007

  • Most Orthodox Jewish men wear a garment called a tallet katan under their shirts, in fulfillment of Numbers 15:37–41.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Atlanta Councilmembers Propose Ban on Baggy Pants: 2007

  • Neet, 10th Cir., May 24, 2007, the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals refused to dismiss a suit filed against the warden of a Colorado correctional facility by an Orthodox Jewish prisoner who was kept from leaving the facility for eye surgery because he insisted on wearing his yarmulke and tallit katan.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Howard M. Friedman 2007

  • Total invention, which may have derived from a misunderstanding of the tallit katan.

    Christopher Hitchens’ Foot, Meet Mouth | Jewschool 2007

  • Even at the Kotel, I already have tzitzit on I wear a tallit katan and like one or two other folks who daven at WotW, I untuck them just before Kryiat Shema, so that I can say the third paragraph of the Shema while looking at/kissing on them.

    Nashot HaKotel Adar - Danya Ruttenberg 2007

  • My girl-shaped tallit katan thanks to you with Karaite tzitzit.

    Merton Interlude - Danya Ruttenberg 2006

  • No-one, no-one, no-one is going to tell me that a tallit katan featuring a bra is beged ish.

    DIY mitzvah gear - Danya Ruttenberg 2005

  • Nola Darlings, and there is the Borough Park sort that involves wriggling out of a tallit katan.

    Slate Magazine Troy Patterson 2011

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  • Slang used by Armenian wool-beaters in Moks.

    November 1, 2008