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Article: The classic Jewish garment
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- Jerusalem Post
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- October 18, 1996
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Rabbi Shlomo Riskin
Jerusalem Post
10-18-1996
"And Shem and Japheth took the garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father." (Gen. 9:23)
WHICH item of clothing has the right to be called "the garment"? Is it the black hat, the black coats that hassidim and Lithuanian rabbis prefer, the kippa, or perhaps the hair coverings married women wear?
Although in the eyes of the world such garments identify one as unmistakably Jewish, there is one garment which by definition is the classic Jewish garment; that is if Jewish garment is defined by what the Torah commands us to wear.
In effect, the tallit, either the larger, more colorful ...