Zitzit
Zitzit (Heb., ‘fringes’). Tassels attached by Jews to garments worn to fulfil the commandments of Numbers 15. 37–41 and Deuteronomy 22. 12. As a positive time-bound commandment, women do not have a duty to wear zitzit.
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