NOUN
- (Judaism) a shawl with a ritually knotted fringe at each corner; worn by Jews at morning prayer
How To Use prayer shawl In A Sentence
- In fact, Iranian Jews use the Hebrew word "tzitzit" to describe the Jewish prayer shawl. Reports of Ahmadinegad's Jewish past, a hoax
- Light will cast the shadow of the stripes onto the sidewalk, creating a sense of occasion, welcoming visitors, and evoking the fringe of a tallit prayer shawl, known as the tzitzit. A Synagogue for the Young
- Ritual Jewish art includes beautifully crafted menorahs, wine cups, candlesticks, tallilot (prayer shawls), and other ceremonial objects.
- The shochet, 32-year-old Rabbi Shalom Kantor, is standing off to the side, removing his prayer shawl and phylacteries. Sue Fishkoff: The New Jewish Food Movement: Jews Who Meet What They Eat
- He opposed circumcision, wearing of skull caps or prayer shawls, or the blowing of the shofar - in short just about anything traditionally Jewish.
- They don talliths (prayer shawls) over their tweeds and attend the services of Louis Himmelfarb, dying unassimilated of cancer in a Catholic hospital.
- They linked their talliths (prayer shawls) into a huppah (wedding canopy) and ordered us to squat beneath it.
- Back in the redwoods in January 1997, a caravan of 100 worshippers - some wearing talliths, or fringed prayer shawls, as Jews have for thousands of years - hiked onto the timber firm's property and planted two dozen redwood seedlings along a barren stream bank.
- In his kippa and tallis (the traditional skullcap and prayer shawl), he paused frequently along the way so that those gathered to commemorate this important day might reach out from the pews to touch their own tallis to the sacred scroll. Sylvia Sukop: Germany's First Jewish Cantor Since the Holocaust Finds a New Home in Los Angeles
- But later, he conducted a simple prayer service in vestments that included a hard hat, combat boots and a prayer shawl. For those touched most by 9/11, a turning point in faith
