Definitions
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- noun any of the four
tassels orfringes ongarments worn by theJews inremembrance of thecommandments
Etymologies
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Examples
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Our religion must be a living influence, always with us, so the tsitsith is
Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago Hannah Trager
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Besides, he now made up his mind always to wear his tsitsith.
Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago Hannah Trager
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Instead of being ashamed when you were mocked and laughed at by Christian boys for wearing your tsitsith, you should have asked them to hear you explain the reason for wearing it.
Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago Hannah Trager
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"Listen to me, my child -- instead of being ashamed, you should feel it a privilege to wear tsitsith."
Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago Hannah Trager
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"I know that in Palestine the Jews, whether old or young, greatly love to wear their tsitsith, and take a pride in letting them be seen, so that the Arabs and the Turks look upon the tsitsith as a sacred garment."
Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago Hannah Trager
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When you say the Shema twice a day, as every good Jew is expected to do, you read in it that God commanded us, through Moses, to wear a fringe on our garment -- the tsitsith, a visible sign to remind us of His Commandments, just in the same way as a table, spread ready for a meal, reminds us of our meals.
Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago Hannah Trager
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According to some Rabbis, the most important of all is that about the _tephillin_ and the _tsitsith_, the fringes and phylacteries; and 'he who diligently observes it is regarded in the same light as if he had kept the whole Law.'
Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern James Edward Talmage 1897
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"Why, he took the tsitsith and threw it on the floor, and said he would never wear it again.
Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago Hannah Trager
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I gave Benjamin his Sabbath clothes and a clean tsitsith, and what do you think he did? "
Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago Hannah Trager
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What made you throw the tsitsith down on the floor this afternoon and say to your mother that you would not wear it? "
Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago Hannah Trager
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