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Hand-woven tallit comparison: Gabrieli vs. Shilo
Our customers often spend a lot of time looking through our selection of hand-woven tallit designs. Here's a question we got this week:Hi there,I'm looking at getting a tallit and I want your advice. I'm debating between the Shilo classic and one of the Gabrieli handwoven wool ones. What would you recommend? I can't seem to make [...]
Tefillin Peshutim Mehudarim Comparison
There are a lot of consumers out there shopping for inexpensive tefillin. In general you should recognize that a very good set of tefillin costs over $500. While I urge people to budget as much as possible for tefillin and consider it an important investment, I realize not everyone can afford to spend that much. But [...]
Nonslip Chabad Tallit
A prospective customer pointed out a very valid point regarding a seeming contradiction in the nonslip Chabad Prestige Tallit. Comparing Chabad tallit To Nonslip (Prestige) Chabad tallit. Confused about two things that seem to contradict each other. The Prestige is lined with silk. You indicated elsewhere that the silk lining tends to make it MORE slippery. [...]
Tallit sizing basics
This week a customer who had ordered a size 60 suddenly contacted us the next day to change to a size 24. Quite a drastic change. Luckily the tzitzit had not yet been tied on. Because otherwise it would be a big mess to make changes later, I sent him a detailed explanation of tallit [...]
Tallit and tzitzit sales to New Zealand
I'm sorry to say I’ve never been to New Zealand, but we have sent plenty of tallits and tzitzit there.Leafing through our order history I see that the vast majority go to customers in Auckland and Wellington, but a good number of tallit sales also go to more far-flung parts of New Zealand, including Spotswood, [...]
Tallit Fringes
People can be very detail-oriented when looking for just the right tallit. I would like to criticize this tendency, saying style issues should be downplayed when buying a tallit -- except that I'm no different. One of those details is the fringes. Tallit fringes are pretty much the same on about 90% of tallitot, but some [...]
This year's holiday schedule
We have had a very high volume of orders flooding in starting a few weeks before Rosh Hashana and have been working overtime to get them out as quickly as possible. Our tzitzit tie-er is worked to the bone and I have been staying at the office until well into the night (one night until [...]
What size tallit should I get for my husband (or chassan)?
We often get inquiries from women who want to be a tallit for their husband (or soon-to-be husband) and write to me saying they have no clue what size to get him. No need to apologize. He probably doesn't know his tallit size either. Here's an exchange many of our readers might find helpful: Hi there. My [...]
Tashbetz Tallit with side bands and half lining
The Tashbetz is a fabulous lightweight tallit and perhaps Mishkan Hatchelet's best-selling tallit. In most cases adding side bands and/or a half lining is probably a bad idea. The following is an exchange with a customer explaining why.Hi Ben,Thanks for the response. Sorry for my long delay.Yes, I ordered my smaller blue tallit from you [...]
Do tzitzit need to have five knots? What about Yemenite tying?
There's a lot of confusion and ambiguity over the question how one should tie techelet tzitzit. Recently we received this email from a customer who ordered a tallit with Rambam tying."I was just approached about the Talit Gadol that I have received with the 13 chulyot tying method. And I was told that it is invalid and [...]