REalization

[debka_notion]

I just realized- I really ought to put tzitzit on my poncho: as far as I can tell, it fulfills all the requirements for needing them. I haven't the foggiest where I take that, or the other practical matters involved. It should produce interesting comments though: the thing is darkish grey, with stripes over each shoulder. Not the sort of thing one usually sees with tzitzit. At all.

Comments

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

If tzitziot would be a problem, you can try to round a corner. Not sure if that helps.

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

Not so much a problem of having them, jsut that I don't know where I'd go to have them put on, and I have a feeling anyone who ties tzitzit would well, laugh at someone who brought in a poncho to have tzitzit put on it. TO whom does one bring such an item, anyways?

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

Well . . . I'd offer to do it myself, if I were in the area. The tying is not all that complicated a skill. The trick is making the holes into which to tie the strings. (That's probably not much of a trick either, but I know far more about knot tying than I do about sewing and the like. Does that make me male?)

I don't know of anyone who professionally ties tzitziot, per se, but I imagine that anyone who did would be perfectly happy to tie them to any garment that deserves them.

You can get the strings at any decent Judaica shop.

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

I think it's more a cultural result of your being male than the cause thereof. Making holes isn't too hard- it's like making button holes, which I don't have so much experience, but I can always experiment, as I know the general idea- I think it works out to: do the blanket stitch around the hole you make a lot.

[belu.livejournal.com]

Well, if it's too much trouble to modify your poncho, then you could always use a different rain-repelling device. Like an umbrella. Unless that would bo too much trouble too.

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

Eh, it isn't a rain-repelling poncho, it's basically a blanket with a hole in the middle. An umbrella I have, also a raincoat, although I once again left that at home, even in today's nasty weather. Nah- I'll find some way to put tzitzit on my poncho, given time.

[bobtheslinky.livejournal.com]

I thought of you, because last night I led my first women's mezzuman.

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

*cheers* Congratulations. I remember being a bit intimidated, but a friend of mine last year decided that I could do it, and should, and therefore for a while just kept pointing to me when people were deciding who should lead. So, good job, I'm sure, and I look forward to hearing you sometime in the nearish future.

[tovah623.livejournal.com]

Well, most tallitot have stripes, so there u go...