Women Wearing a Tallit

Some personal reflections of women wearing a tallit.

One Woman and Her Fringe

I must have been only five or six when I used to sit next to my father in shul playing with the fringes of his tallit. Soon after that we joined a more 'modern' Conservative congregation...

Wearing My Tallit for Women With Pride

I actually chose to buy and wear my tallit exactly a week before I received the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, as though it was planned to help comfort me when times get rough later on in the illness.

My Tallit Is Holding Me Together

There was a small but growing number of 'women tallit wearers' at the Shabbat morning services. Something irritated me about them and, because the majority were among my really close friends, it was quite a dilemma. What had they discovered that was so special?

Taking the Plunge Into a Warm Tallit for Women

I went to cheder from 5 to 12 with nothing to mark my coming of age - not even a bat chayil (I do not think they had invented them yet then). My clearest and most persistent memories of shul, as girl then woman, are of looking down from the ladies' gallery onto a sea of becappeled male heads, wondering what it was all about.

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