Benny Friedman, a Hasidic musician and Gopin's son-in-law, tweeted a photo of the victim's blood-stained
tzitzit. "This is absolutely frightening," Friedman wrote, "and obviously something that a civilization should never tolerate."
It is most likely that the biblical tekhelet, a bluish cord that was mandated in Numbers 15:38 to be affixed to the corner fringes (
tzitzit), was derived from this dye.
Redesigning
Tzitzit in the Babylonian Talmud in Light of Literary Depictions of the Zoroastrian Kustig.
The children attend a Jewish school, women are to dress modestly, and some Orthodox Jewish men wear a small cloak under their shirts with fringes (
tzitzit) hanging from each corner.
Beginning with the aforementioned ideal of monotheism, the passages that follow impel the speaker to love God, teach Judaism to one's children, recognize divine reward and punishment, and to fulfill the positive commandments of tefillin, (1) mezuzah, (2) and
tzitzit (3) (Telushkin, 667).
Tzitzit, ritual knotted fringes worn by Orthodox Jews on the corners of four-cornered garments, might present a problem for some employers if the
Tzitzit are visible.
"I have no problem going out with
tzitzit (ritual fringes) and a hat.
In September of this year, its glossy cover showed a pensive bearded gentleman with kippah and
tzitzit, the director of a Jewish center, seated next to a red Soviet-style banner, the kind that used to proclaim the glory of the Communist Party.