[Avodah] Women and Tallis

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 01:42:18AM +0100, Allan Engel wrote:
: This does throw up a separate question that I have wondered about, what
: exactly is the significance of a tallis, especially in an era where men
: routinely wear tzitzis? I appreciate that one can only do 'atifa with a full
: tallis, and that therefore they have different brochos, but surely that is a
: post-facto distinction?

The Mordechai says you're not yotzei the mitzvah at all with a tallis
qatan. The Orchos Chaim says that we cannot say "lehis'ateif" for this
reason, and such a berakhah would be levatallah and sheim H' lashav.
The Rama in Darkhei Moshe follows the OC on this, and says we make
"al mitzvas tzitzis" out of cheshash for those who hold there is no
qiyum. (Possibly "al mitzvas tzitzis" would be an example of the Ashk
practice of making berakhos on minhagim???)

See RSM's post from May 2002 at
<http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol09/v09n026.shtml#03>.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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