tallith

[Ashk. Heb., Eng. tah-lis; Seph. Heb. tah-leet]

tal·lith

[Ashk. Heb., Eng. tah-lis; Seph. Heb. tah-leet]
noun, plural tal·li·thim, tal·li·tim, tal·li·sim [Ashk. Heb., Eng. tah-lee-sim, -ley-, tah-luh-sim; Seph. Heb. tah-lee-teem] . Judaism.
a shawllike garment of wool, silk, or the like, with fringes, or zizith, at the four corners, worn around the shoulders by Orthodox and Conservative (sometimes also Reform) Jews, as during the morning service.
Also, tal·lit, tal·lis.


Origin:
1605–15; < Hebrew ṭallīth literally, cover, cloak
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Tallith is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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tallis or tallith (ˈtɑlis, tɑˈlit)
 
n
Judaism a fringed shawl worn by Jewish men during morning prayers
 
[from Hebrew, literally: a cover]
 
tallith or tallith
 
n
 
[from Hebrew, literally: a cover]

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tallith

prayerprayer shawl worn by male Jews during the daily morning service (shaharit); it is also worn by the leader of the service during the afternoon service (minha). On Yom Kippur, males wear it for all five services and on Tisha be-Av only during the afternoon service

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