Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
tallith .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
tallit .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun English organist and composer of church and secular music; was granted a monopoly in music printing with William Byrd (1505-1585)
- noun (Judaism) a shawl with a ritually knotted fringe at each corner; worn by Jews at morning prayer
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Examples
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I had my first Florida synagogue experience complete with a tie-dyed tallis sighting and Jon wearing a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles yarmulke.
Sara Sellar: Outside The Tribe -- Home For The Holidays Sara Sellar 2011
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I had my first Florida synagogue experience complete with a tie-dyed tallis sighting and Jon wearing a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles yarmulke.
Sara Sellar: Outside The Tribe -- Home For The Holidays Sara Sellar 2011
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A woman who dons a tallis is therefore trying to dress like a man, which is forbidden.
Chesler Chronicles » Khomeini-ism Comes to Israel: Women of the Wall vs. the Jewish State 2010
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But this wasn't the case either, which is unfortunate, since few things are funnier to me than the old "short-sheeted tallis" trick.
Archive 2010-09-01 BikeSnobNYC 2010
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But this wasn't the case either, which is unfortunate, since few things are funnier to me than the old "short-sheeted tallis" trick.
Laying it On Thick: Your Epidermis is Showing BikeSnobNYC 2010
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The halacha enjoins respecting the minhag hamakom, specifically in order to maintain peace—and this with respect to totally normative practices, which women wearing a tallis, and having a “minyan” are surely not even if special dispensation can be found for doing these things privately.
Chesler Chronicles » Khomeini-ism Comes to Israel: Women of the Wall vs. the Jewish State 2010
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"I used to sit on my Dad's lap and play with his tallis and braid it."
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If the Orthodox rabbi had any Halachic issues, Shiya said, I should inquire about the possibility of burying the lampshade along with shaymos—sacred ritual objects like tallis prayer shawls and tefillin phylacteries that, being inscribed with the name of G-d, were to be interred with the same respect as the human body.
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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In his kippa and tallis (the traditional skullcap and prayer shawl), he paused frequently along the way so that those gathered to commemorate this important day might reach out from the pews to touch their own tallis to the sacred scroll.
Sylvia Sukop: Germany's First Jewish Cantor Since the Holocaust Finds a New Home in Los Angeles 2010
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The traditions we follow today, such as the tallis and tefillim, evolved out of rabinnical interpretations of the bible.
Chesler Chronicles » Khomeini-ism Comes to Israel: Women of the Wall vs. the Jewish State 2010
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