home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!cbnews!ask
- From: ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet)
- Subject: Re: Square Kippot (was: Re: Tzitzit on ordinary garments)
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 03:48:11 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.034811.2749@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Nov13.172408.19602@uc.msc.edu> <1992Nov15.201508.28866@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1992Nov16.021109.15846@cas.org>
- Lines: 16
-
- In article <1992Nov16.021109.15846@cas.org> rmt51@cas.org writes:
- >In article <1992Nov15.201508.28866@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>,
- >friedenb@silver.egr.msu.edu (Gedaliah Friedenberg) writes:
- >|>
- >|> If one were to wear a square kippah, would it require tzitzit?
- >|> (is a kippah considered a garment?)
- >|>
- >No. There is a certain minimum size for a 4-cornered garment to require
- >tzitzit, and a kippah is too small by far.
-
- The talit is a rectangular garment, at keast one side is 1 amot
- (4 fists -- about 18 inches)
-
- Of course, many people do daven with a talit over their heads.
- --
- Art Kamlet a_s_kamlet@att.com AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
-