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- From: saal@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (samuel.saal)
- Subject: Re: Tzitzit on ordinary garments
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:05:41 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.180541.20909@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Nov23.134129.11889@umbc3.umbc.edu> <1992Nov23.135430.11120@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> <1992Nov23.141602.18257@umbc3.umbc.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov23.141602.18257@umbc3.umbc.edu>
- shimoff@umbc4.umbc.edu (Eliot Shimoff) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov23.135430.11120@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- saal@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (samuel.saal) writes:
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- >>In article <1992Nov23.134129.11889@umbc3.umbc.edu>
- >>shimoff@umbc4.umbc.edu (Eliot Shimoff) writes:
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- >>>In article <9211202025.AA11645@cyclone.sbi.com>
- >><gertler@cyclone.sbi.com (Don Gertler)> writes:
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- >>>>warren@nysernet.ORG (Warren Burstein) writes:
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- >>>>> The tallisists go around putting tzitzit on everything possible.
- >>>> ^
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- >>>>Caught ya!! You closet Ashkenazi!
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- >>>Should it have been "tallitittt go around putting tzitzit on everything
- >>>pottible?
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- >>Wait a minute. I thought one only put tzitzit on clothing, not on food or
- >>drink. Putting tzitzit on potable items might bring us back to the great
- >>4-cornered hamentasch debate of a couple Purims ago.
-
- >Or Warren's tzav pinui, which (I assume) means a [four-]cornered turtle,
- >which may or may not be required to have tzizit. (Does a turtle
- >"wear" its carapace? And what if a person wears a turtle?)
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- The person is always welcome to dip his turtle, his tzitzit, or his Karpas
- in saltwater on Pesach. However, the person who cleans his tzitzit may
- have other priorities.
- --
- Sam Saal kingfish!saal OR saal@kingfish.att.com
- Vayiftach HaShem et Peah Ha`Aton
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