See the text of the blessing at Affixing the Mezuzah. Why is the mezuzah affixed at an angle? The rabbis could not decide whether it should be placed horizontally or vertically, so they compromised! Every time you pass through a door with a mezuzah on it, you touch the mezuzah and then kiss the fingers that touched it, expressing love and respect for G-d and his mitzvot and reminding yourself of the mitzvot contained within them. It is proper to remove a mezuzah when you move, and in fact, it is usually recommended.
If you leave it in place, the subsequent owner may treat it with disrespect, and this is a grave sin. I have seen many mezuzot in apartment complexes that have been painted over because a subsequent owner failed to remove it while the building was painted, and it breaks my heart every time I see that sort of disrespect to an object of religious significance.
For more information about mezuzot or to purchase valid scrolls for a mezuzah online, visit the S. The Torah commands us to wear tzitzit at the corners of our garments as a reminder of the mitzvot. The word tzitzit is usually translated as fringes, but they are really more like tassels the strings on a mortarboard that are moved from right to left at a college student's graduation attached to each corner of the tallit.
They are kind of like the old technique of tying a string around your finger to remember something. The passage also instructs that the tzitzit should have a thread of "techeilet," believed to be a blue or turquoise dye, but the source of that dye is no longer known, so tzitzit are today usually are all white.
There is a complex procedure for tying the knots of the tzitzit, filled with religious and numerological significance. They are usually but not always! The mitzvah to wear tzitzit applies only to four-cornered garments, because the passage speaks of attaching tzitzit to the corners of the garments. Four-cornered garments were common in biblical times but are not common anymore.
To fulfill this mitzvah, adult men wear a four-cornered shawl called a tallit during morning services , along with the tefillin. In some Orthodox congregations , only married men wear a tallit; in others, both married and unmarried men wear one. In Conservative , Reform and Reconstructionist synagogues, both men and women may wear a tallit, but men are somewhat more likely than women to do so. A blessing is recited when you put on the tallit.
See the text of the blessing at Tallit and Tefillin. Strictly observant Jewish men commonly wear a special four-cornered garment, similar to a poncho, called a tallit katan "little tallit" , so that they will have the opportunity to fulfill this important mitzvah all day long.
The tallit katan is worn under the shirt, with the tzitzit hanging out so they can be seen. If you've ever seen a Jewish man with strings hanging out of his clothing, this is probably what you were seeing. There is no particular religious significance to the tallit shawl itself, other than the fact that it holds the tzitzit tassels on its corners. There are also very few religious requirements with regard to the design of the tallit. The tallit must be long enough to be worn over the shoulders as a shawl , not just around the neck as a scarf , to fulfill the requirement that the tzitzit be on a "garment.
A longer tallit is commonly folded over the shoulders, to prevent the tzitzit from dragging on the ground. The tallit may be made of any material, but must not be made of a combination of wool and linen, because that combination is forbidden on any clothing. Most tallitot are white with navy or black stripes along the shorter ends, possibly in memory of the thread of techeilet.
They also commonly have an artistic motif of some kind along the top long end the outside of the part that goes against your neck. This motif is referred to as an atarah crown. There is no particular religious significance to the atarah; it simply tells you which end is up! Greenblatt, however, says he frequently receives variations of the tweet from anti-Semites and white supremacists. The six-pointed symbol is commonly referred to as the Star of David, a reference to the Biblical king and his legendary "shield.
While the hexagram may have become the most common image symbolizing modern Jewish religion and heritage see: the Israeli flag , the six-pointed star is far from the only or the oldest image of Judaism. The earliest uses of the Star of David in Jewish culture had little to do with religion. Skip to content Jewish life abounds in symbols and religious objects — visual and tangible representations of its many lofty values and ideals which words alone cannot adequately describe.
Menorah — The menorah is described in the Bible as the seven-branched candelabrum made of gold and used in the portable sanctuary set up by Moses in the wilderness and later in the Temple in Jerusalem. Fresh olive oil of the purest quality was burned daily to light its lamps. The menorah has been a symbol of Judaism since ancient times and is the emblem on the coat of arms of the modern state of Israel.
The Roman-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus states that three of the seven lamps were allowed to burn during the day also; however, according to the Talmud, only the center lamp was left burning all day, into which as much oil was put as into the others. Although all the other lights were extinguished, that light buried oil, in spite of the fact that it had been kindled first. Star of David — Its shape is that of a hexagram, the compound of two equilateral triangles.
The hexagram has been in use as a symbol of Judaism since the 17th century, with precedents in the 14th to 16th centuries in Central Europe, where the Shield of David was partly used in conjunction with the Seal of Solomon the hexagram on Jewish flags. The hexagram does appear occasionally in Jewish contexts since antiquity, apparently as a decorative motif.
For example, in Israel, there is a stone bearing a hexagram from the arch of a th-century synagogue in the Galilee. Hamesh Hand — The Hamesh hand or hamsa hand is a popular motif in Jewish jewelry. Each morning Jewish men bind tefillin leather boxes containing four specific passages from the Bible to their head and arm during prayers. This practice is meant to take them to a higher spiritual level.
It is a mitzvah commandment to put on tzitzit as a reminder that God is always there and that we should always follow his comandments. Tzitzit are ritual fringes, knotted a special way to symbolise the mitzvot commandments in the Torah, and are worn on the corners of four-cornered garments.
They are seen on the corners of a tallit see above or on an undergarment worn by more religious men. The yad is a decorative pointer in the shape of a hand that is used to show what place the reader is up to while reading the Torah. Some Jews wear a kind of good luck charm called a hamsa.
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