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Thursday, November 18, 2010

Shlomo Molcho's Tzitzis

The Shulchan Aruch (שו"ע או"ח סי' י"א סי"ד) writes that the minhag is to have four sets of "chulyos" around the tzitzis before the strings that protrude. The count he writes is: 7, 9, 11, 13. The Magen Avraham (מג"א שם ס"ק כ"ב) writes in the name of the Shala"h to place 8 in the second set. He then brings from the Lechem Chamudos (the Rav of Prague, R. Yom Tov Lipman Heller, the Tosfos Yom Tov) who writes: "I saw the tzitzis of the holy saint R. Shlomo Molcho with the following order: 10,5,6,5, matching the letters of Hashem's name."
Speaking of the tzitzis of Shlomo Molcho, the Lechem Chamudos writes as well that he saw that the color of his tzitzis was "like the color of an egg yolk. Such was the tallis of the saint R. Shlomo Molcho."
מג"א סי' י"א ס"ק כ"ב
לחם חמודות הל' ציצית סי' צ"ח
מעשה רקח (על הרמב"ם) הל' ציצית פ"ב ה"ח

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