question

[desh]

Should I start wearing tzitzit?

Comments

[yolachka.livejournal.com]

Do you feel a closer connetcion to G-d and the Jewish people when you do? I personally think that is the only reason to start observing a mitzvah you weren't brought up observing. Done for any other reason, I believe, it will be a chore and you will eventually either stop or resent your religion for it.

[tobeginagain.livejournal.com]

Why?

[alanscottevil.livejournal.com]

HOT!! Totally do it!

..wait, do you mean wearing tzitzit *with* your regular clothing, or *instead of* your regular clothing? ;)

[myq.livejournal.com]

Seems like it'd get hot in the summer.

[outcastspice.livejournal.com]

yes.

[arctic-alpine.livejournal.com]

you better before you get smote, or whore after other gods, and forget the commandmenats, etc.

but seriously? why ask? do what feels right to you? you can start, see if you like it, stop again

[smarriveurr.livejournal.com]

Do you wear many four-cornered garments? It'd be a little... weird... to cut the tzitzit off a tallit to put them on e.g. your jacket.

[(Anonymous)]

huge. tzitzit. fan.
I like polyester mesh or (if you hold that it needs to be a natural fabric and are willing to make it yourself) silk in the summer-- they both wick well! And when I have a largish shawl or wrap I hem up a corner so it's not a corner. -joannaShmoanna

[leftyjew.livejournal.com]

The main reason I came here was that I was confused. Why in desh's livejournal is a question asked and no lj poll?

[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.

[groovyjew.livejournal.com]

As for the summer - My brothers wear mesh tzitzit in the summers, and though you might not think they count (as per being a garment) there are people who think they do. That way the tzitzit add very little weight to your ensemble. Or, if you're on vacation (don't go to work like this) I have a friend who simply cuts up a couple of shirts and adds tzitziot to the corners. Then he's wearing a sort of weird shirt with slits in the sides, but he tucks it in so ii doesn't flap around, and it works alright, if you're just hanging around and not trying to look adult.

If you want to, go for it! if not, dont. Or change your mind in the middle. Whatever.