Statement of Faith
There is one God--the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Yeshua is YHWH revealed in human flesh, born of a virgin, and an incarnation of the one God.
Scripture is inspired of God and constitutes the perspicuous and plenary special revelation of God.
The covenant with Abraham, given as a Torah to Jacob, and confirmed through Yeshua is one and eternal never to be abrogated by man.
Yeshua the Messiah died vicariously on behalf of all sinners, rose from the dead on the third day, and bodily ascended into Heaven.
Yeshua will return physically to inaugurate the kingdom of God and will physically reign upon the Earth.
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Our God is a jealous God. He wants us to remember Him at all times therefore He gave us some devices to help us to remember. The Tzitzit is one of them, the Mezuza is another and the command to tie His words on our hands and put them between our eyes. Everytime we look or touch these things we remember Him. When we desplay the tzitziot in the open, we also help other people to remember Him. So I would not put my tzitziot in my pocket.
The command you stated sayes LEDOROTAM,(for their generations) It takes days to compile a generation. I do not see why we should not wear the tzitzit every day. Maybe it is not clear in scriptures (even though it is clear to me)I don't think God will punish me for wearing them everyday. Now, Kippa is another story.
Hello Dan,
When I wear my tzitziot pocketed it generally is out of concern for context. I wear them visibly when I engage in some activities, and there are some when I pferer to wear them concealed. This is often a practical matter--so that I do not get them dirty, etc.
As I am sure you are aware, the ancient Israelites wore a winged garment as part of their daily routine; hence, for them tzitziot were worn daily. We also know that the practice of wearing tassels was not unique to ancient Israel as depictions of Assyrians and others display tassel-like appendages to their garments. A cultural drift away from winged garments was underway and culminated in the post-Exilic period. At this time it became necessary to find a way to observe the mitswah, and the pious wour either a tallit gadol or an arba kanfot ("tallit katan") for daily use.
Did every Israelite/Jew wear tzitziot on a daily basis? The answer is no. The rabbinic material labels a person who does not fully abide by rabbinic halakhah an "am ha-eretz" which means "people of the land." This was a negative term. One of the attributes that the Mishnah records separated the am ha-eretz from the Pharisees was the wearing of tzitziot where the am ha-eretz did not wear them daily. This second-hand refernece suggests that not all Jews wore tzitziot on a daily basis.
Hence, in light of the drift away from winged garments and the evidence that not all 2nd-Temple Jews wore tzitziot, I feel comfortable with acknowledging the "letter of the law." I realize that the original fulfillment of this mitswah was a daily donning of tzitziot, but our situation has changed.
There is a lot of room for discussion on this matter. However, my concern is that we not speak definetively where the word of God is silent. This would also go for how one ties tzitziot, the lenght, the type of teckelet, etc.
Thank you for posting!!
PeterS (Tzuriel)
I agree with you that the Tzitzit was not worn every day by certain people, but on the other hand I am also sure that the Tzitzit Was worn every day by certain people, so what we have is a tayku (a tie). If I would write a disertation on tzitzit I would have emphasis the more havier things like what you mentioned, the ties, the length, the tchelet and the prevaling fashion now days of tying a tzitzit to the belt loops.
Blessings
Dan
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