INFOCUS | Why Wear Tzitzit?

Rabbi Steve Berkson explains why covenanted people obey the command to wear tzitzit (strings, tassels) on the four corners of their garments.

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[matthewanderson]

THANK YOU for posting this. I was nervous, self-conscious about wearing my tzitzit. YHWH put your video in front of me. Your words were like an “ah ha!” moment. Thank you again.

[stephenforbesjr]

I never wore tzit zit until October 7th, Now, I wear them all the time. Don't leave the house without 'em!

[YHWHbroughtmeOutYHWHisOne]

I just got a visual “holes in your walk”
A railroad bridge
Obeyed commands are the wooden crossbeams
Disobey and the beam goes away
❤thank you Rabbi Steve
Praise YHWH for opening eyes to the truth every day

[e.j.]

I have mine!…And very aware and proud to be Yahweh Child and I’m part of MTOI!🙏🏾😄

[amyxhomestead]

I have no husband. I wear them to remind myself that Abba is my head.

[happy_bubble]

My husband has his attached to a keychain ring, with a lobster claw clasp. He has to wear his work shirts tucked in and the constant tucking and untucking seemed problematic. So this was our solution to try out and see how it goes. We were intimidated to even try wearing them, but yep - no one says anything negative, even in the Bible Belt of America. They will occasionally ask, but the people who ask already ask questions about his Torah Observant beliefs. He clips his tzitzi to his belt loops via the clasp of a key chain.

[ahavarunyon]

I'm a covenanted female (I'm Jewish, ) I used to wear tzitziyot until my Rabbi told me that throughout history Jewish women have been exempt from it because it's a time bound command, and so I don't wear them anymore because you're supposed to follow the halacha of your congregation. I will say that I was VERY aware of them when I wore them, and it DID remind me of what the Word says it should! Asking around, I have been told many times to just keep the halacha of my Rabbi and in the end if he taught me wrong he'd be the one that answered for it. Thoughts?

[robertavaughan]

I'm a female and I wear them. For all the reasons that were mentioned. I have had others that I met at grocery stores that I did not know come up to me who were looking for a fellowship. There is also the analogy of it being like a wedding ring given at Sinai... it is a way of being set apart. Its also an opener for questions and conversations about Him.. If I'm about to lose my cool over something and I see them even on another woman in public makes me stop and think I'm sure men would probably say the same. I don't feel right if I go out without them. I am also under the understanding that the word used for those that are to wear them in the Hebrew is the same word for children in other areas of the text where women are definitely included ( if this is wrong then no we should not be wearing things pertaining only to men). why is it just about the men here? As for the women under the headship of men or rabbis who don't want you to wear them ask yourself this question if I was told that they didn't want me to pray would I stop praying? Yes they would be held responsible but unless we were ignorant of the situation I doubt that we would get off scot-free especially when you look at others in the text that got swallowed up. Or both Adam and Eve getting reprimanded with crops thorns pain at childbirth...Then, on the other hand there was Abigail.

[Shepherdandsheepministry-ogjq]

Former Baptist Pastor here, still learning so please excuse my ignorance. Are the Tzitzit for us Gentiles to wear as well?

[samuel_HereIAm]

I wear them every day too. Only when im working do I tuck them because im a welder and I don't want them to burn. But I only tuck them when I start working. I walk in to work with them out. Amein I never thought they could be for others or if some mocked me for them to cut them out of my life that's good.

[tordrajaratnam]

Where too buy one whit tru blue colours. Shalom

[Madmen]

They are beautiful. Why would anyone look at you funny for wearing them. Most people won't notice anyway. And so what if they did. We have to be proud of our religious heritage and of our freedom to be religious.

[MrMONS-iutw]

most people dont even know what they are haha i didn't till i was shown

[Yosef_Morrison]

#1 Yeshua wore them or He is not our sinless Messiah. He kept the Torah perfectly and Tzitziot is a Torah command for Israel and all who join themselves to Israel and become as the native-born gaining inheritance.

“And it shall be to you for a tzitzit, AND YOU SHALL SEE IT, and shall remember all the commands of יהוה and shall do them, and not search after your own heart and your own eyes after which you went whoring, so that you remember, and shall do all My commands, and be set-apart unto your Elohim.

Translation: The tzitzit are meant to be worn so they are seen by you and others. They are not to be worn on the inside where you cannot see them and where others cannot see them.

I come from a Chabad Lubavitch background and we have women who wear tzitzit

[OurHavenHoney]

Do you have to wear 4? Modern clothes don’t have “fringes” per se. I wear two, one on each side of my jeans/pants.

[baleu]

People often stare and sometimes even ask what they are. Sometimes they'll say, you're Jewish... 🙄

Simple answer is usually to just say, they are to remind me of all that is good and of God. Sometimes I'll have to explain the command and where it's found in scripture depending on the person's interest level.

It's hard, living in a region where hardly anyone is both Torah observant and a Messianic believer in Yeshua. I'm surrounded on all sides and when I bring up scripture, no one can relate. 😢