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Definition of Tallith
1. Noun. (Judaism) a shawl with a ritually knotted fringe at each corner; worn by Jews at morning prayer.
Definition of Tallith
1. n. 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.
Definition of Tallith
1. Noun. An undergarment worn by orthodox Jews. It covers the chest and upper part of the back. It has tassels (called zizith) on its four corners. ¹
2. Noun. A tasseled shawl or scarf worn over the head or thrown around the shoulders while at prayer. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tallith
1. a Jewish prayer shawl [n TALLITHS, TALLITHES, TALLITHIM, TALLITOTH, TALEYSIM, or TALLAISIM]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tallith
Literary usage of Tallith
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Jewish Laws and Customs: Some of the Laws and Usages of the Children of the by Alfred Kingsley Glover (1900)
"tallith and fringes must be of the same kind of material. 3. A tallith without
four corners needs no fringes, but if it have more than four the fringes must ..."
2. Jewish Laws and Customs: Some of the Laws and Usages of the Children of the by Alfred Kingsley Glover (1900)
"LAWS ABOUT THE tallith AND ITS FRINGES. 1. All square woolen and linen garments
must have the " fringes". 2. tallith and fringes must be of the same kind of ..."
3. Hebraic Literature: Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Maurice Henry Harris (1901)
"... on the date referred to, Jews do not wear their tallith and phylacteries at
morning prayer ; by this act laying aside the outward signs of their ..."
4. A Dictionary of the Bible: Dealing with Its Language, Literature, and by Samuel Rolles Driver, James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie (1908)
"Amulet articles among the Jews are chiefly the fringes of large and small tallith :
the mezuza ; the paper with Ps 121 and certain Abracadabra formulae, ..."
5. The International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia by James Orr (1915)
"... Jews today is as various as their lands of residence and their languages, yet
there are two garments worn by them the world over, the tallith and the ..."
6. A Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels by John Chisholm Lambert (1906)
"The tallith, or praying shawl, is a rectangular woollen shawl about 3 feet by 5
... The tallith is always worn in the synagogue and at prayer time : it tnen ..."
7. Handbook to Christian and Ecclesiastical Rome by Mildred Anna Rosalie Tuker, Hope Malleson (1897)
"This is nothing else but the tallith or head-veil of the Jews, without which no
Jew ever prayed, or ever prays, and which was decorated with the fringes ..."
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