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Definition of Tallith

Tallith
Tallith Tal"lith, n. [NHeb. tall[=i]th.] (Jewish Costume) (a) An undergarment worn by orthodox Jews, covering the chest and the upper part of the back. It has an opening for the head, and has tassels, called zizith, on its four corners. (b) A tasseled shawl or scarf worn over the head or thrown round the shoulders while at prayer.

Meaning of Tallith from wikipedia

- A tallit is a fringed garment worn as a prayer shawl by religious Jews. The tallit has special twined and knotted fringes known as tzitzit attached to...
- Suddenly, I got a brainwave: We already had a flag—the blue and white of the tallith … We had but to unfurl it before the eyes of the Jewish people and the...
- [male] Jews of this era worshipped and pra**** with a covering called a tallith on their heads. 1 Corinthians 11:10 Garland, David E. (1 November 2003)...
- Jerusalem's open-air synagogue wearing a yarmulkah and Jewish phylacteries, and tallith. Some described the song as a declaration of "full-throated Israel support"...
- 'shelter' (MW) sycamine from (AHD, MW) שִׁקמָה shiqmah 'mulberry tree' (OED) tallith from (MW) tillel 'cover' (AHD) talmudism from (MW) lamad 'learn' (AHD)...
- [male] Jews of this era worshipped and pra**** with a covering called a tallith on their heads. Geoffrey D. Dunn. Rhetoric and Tertullian's 'De virginibus...
- forever. Five hundred years before the events of The Sin Eater's Daughter, Tallith was a utopian world. Everyone was privileged, especially the Crown Prince...
- 1982. John Trim, Incorporated Linguist, Vol. 22/1, Winter 1983. Gown & Tallith: in commemoration of the founding of the Cambridge University Jewish Society...
- relate your misfortune to the banker with sciatic nerve, kugel, and the tallith. A bitter blow to Mandelstam's business and re****tion, the “Eulenspiegel...