Posts Tagged ‘ tzitzit ’

Ritual Shellfish

January 16, 2012
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Snails

Tzitzit are the thready fringes that hang from the corners of a tallit. The tzitzit we use today are almost uniformly white, but according to Jewish tradition, they’re allowed to be any color of the rainbow–except blue. In the Torah, we are told to “bind a thread of blue to each corner” of tzitzit.…

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Rabbis in Space

September 7, 2010
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Rabbis in space

Jack Dann is a brilliant science fiction writer. He’s also Jewish–though in much of his…

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