tallis
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n. The Jewish prayer shawl with ritually knotted blue and white fringes.
Example Sentences
"I forgot to bring my tallis to services yesterday."
Listen to recordings of this sentence: ( Recording 1)"a tissue can also be put in the back of your Tallis bag, its miyus when they are left on the table or worse under a siddur or sefer that someone else will use later." (source)
"His Uncle Itz bought him a real old-fashioned woolen tallit for his Bar Mitzvah, instead of that silk one." (Glinert)
"The S&P wore a wide tallet, usually made of silk with pale blue stripes, draping it over the shoulders and upper arms as a shawl (as opposed to a cape), with all four tsitsit hanging in front." (source)
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Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
- Yiddish
Etymology
TH טלית talít > Y טלית tales
- Jews: Jews of diverse religious backgrounds and organizational involvements
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- The New Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten and Lawrence Bush (New York, 2003[1968]).
- The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
- The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).
- Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Popular Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms, by Sol Steinmetz (Lanham, MD, 2005).
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Alternative Spellings
tallit, talis, talit, tallet, talet
Notes
plural: 'talitot' or 'taleysim'
Sometimes also called tallit gadol / talit gadol to differentiate it from a talit katan.
See also tzitzit and arba kanfot.
The "tallet" pronunciation is used by some Sephardic Jews.
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