question

[desh]

Should I start wearing tzitzit?

Comments

[jessebeller.livejournal.com]

as someone who 1. used to wear tzitzit and 2. doesn't have the patience to read all 35 comments right now, so may well be repeating what someone else has said:

wear them if you like, but be careful, and ideally tuck them in. i know in some respects this may be seen as defeating the purpose, but on another level, i feel like tzitzit are too easily become a chip on the shoulder and a rub-in-the-face to everyone who isnt. you know what you're wearing and you know why, no need to flaunt your piety.

[jdcohen.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna second that. It doesn't seem to me like you need to prove your devotion to Hashem, plus they don't seem to me to be an ideally comfortable undergarment.

--Jeff

[desh]

I don't see what would be uncomfortable about it in non-summer months. It's just an undershirt without sides and with some fringes tied on.

Though that other issue is interesting. Where's the line between pride and flaunting? (Or does that not matter?) Jeff, would you be personally offended/uncomfortable if I wore them out? If so, do you think that's motly because of your religious background or because of some other reason?

[jdcohen.livejournal.com]

That's a moot point, because you never go out with us anyway.

--Jeff

[desh]

Poopiehead.

[feygele.livejournal.com]

I usually wear mine out. Not to "rub-in-the-face", but to show folks that there are Jews who don't fall in the mainstream stereotype of tzitzis wearers who don them and are shomer mitzvos. That said, it's seldom I have my tzitzis hanging down to my knees; usually they're a couple inches below the bottom of my shirt, easy to spot if someone's looking, but just as easy to miss.