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PRONUNCIATION OF TALLITH

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TALLITH

noun
adjective
verb
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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tallith is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TALLITH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

tallith

Tallit

A tallit pl. tallitot is a Jewish prayer shawl. The tallit is worn over the outer clothes during the morning prayers and worn during all prayers on Yom Kippur. The tallit has special twined and knotted fringes known as tzitzit attached to its four corners. Most traditional tallitot are made of wool. Tallitot are often first worn by children on their Bar Mitzvahs. In orthodox, Ashkenazi circles, a Tallit is customarily presented to a groom before marriage as part of the dowry.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TALLITH

talliable
talliate
tallied
tallier
tallies
Tallin
Tallinn
tallis
tallish
tallit
tallites
tallitot
tallness
tallol
tallow
tallow candle
tallow wood
tallowish
tallowy
tally

WORDS THAT END LIKE TALLITH

batholith
coccolith
coprolith
cyclolith
eolith
laccolith
Lilith
megalith
microlith
monolith
neolith
otolith
palaeolith
peristalith
phytolith
regolith
rhabdolith
urolith
xenolith
zoolith

Synonyms and antonyms of tallith in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tallith» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TALLITH

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Translator English - Chinese

tallith
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

talit
570 millions of speakers

English

tallith
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

tallith
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

tallith
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

tallith
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tallith
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

tallith
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tallith
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tallith
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Tallith
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

肩衣
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

로 tallith
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tallith
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

khăn choàng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

tallith
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उंचवट्या
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tallith
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tallith
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tałes
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

tallith
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tallith
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

tallith
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

tallith
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

tallith
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

tallith
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tallith

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TALLITH»

The term «tallith» is used very little and occupies the 176.267 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TALLITH» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tallith

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TALLITH»

Discover the use of tallith in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tallith and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Hachibur - Book One
i.e. The four (4) parts of pardes (acronym: PaRDeS) = p'shat = simple meaning; remez = implied meaning; drush = moralistic meaning; sod = secret meaning. See pardes. English : Dew of torah Related Items : pardes Topic : 5 tallith ...
Warren Cyr, 2009
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Glossalalia: An Alphabet of Critical Keywords
And perhaps also like the tallith that Derrida touches or kisses without seeing almost every evening he is at home ( Veils 44) and that he differentiates from the veil and textiles because it may never become a SCIiAP or a remnant. lt is never to ...
Julian Wolfreys, Harun Karim Thomas, 2003
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Acts of Religion
For if the woof of the tallith is, as should be, made of wool, whereas the warp is of cotton, silk or “something similar,” or vice versa, if the warp is made of wool whereas the woof is made of a textile (in the strict sense), silk or cotton, then, in these ...
Jacques Derrida, Gil Anidjar, 2013
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Augustine and Postmodernism: Confessions and Circumfession
Sero te amavi It is not so much a question of his faith in his tallith, Derrida says, but of his tallith's faith in him. Happily, his tallith is very understanding and forgiving of his inconstancies: I love the peaceful passion, the distracted love my tallith ...
John D. Caputo, Michael J. Scanlon, 2005
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Veils
When it is worn right on the body, the tallith touches itself like the sacred texts of the tefillin (phylacteries). Sometimes on top of, sometimes underneath, the other clothes. Underneath, that's the one I never had, the little one, they call it, the one ...
Hélène Cixous, Jacques Derrida, 2001
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My Mother's Sabbath Days: A Memoir
“The goose—dealer's tallith is thirty years old and still brand—new.” The Mayssegoler checks to see. whether what he has received is adequate to his dignity, and is satisfied. Nonetheless, he does not wish to leave the impression that it makes ...
Chaim Grade, 1997
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Derrida and Religion: Other Testaments
Even the "always already" of deconstruction — that cliche that one feels one has always already heard — seems not to apply to the tallith: Before hiding from sight like an opaque veil, before letting light through like a translucent veil before ...
Yvonne Sherwood, Kevin Hart, 2005
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Miracle and Machine: Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of ...
It would also be the number that governs the weaving of the tallith or prayer shawl, “the numerical value of the word designating the fringes of the tallith, the tzitziths, is 600, plus 8 threads and 5 knots, making 613” (“SW” 64). In a later section of ...
Michael Naas, 2012
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The Religious Life of Dress: Global Fashion and Faith
Before wrapping oneself in the tallith, a blessing is said: 'Blessed art Thou, O Lord, our God, Kingdom of the Universe, who has sanctified us by Thy commandments and hast commanded us to wrap ourselves in the fringed garments'. On some ...
Lynne Hume, 2013
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Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the ...
Sao Paulo that he ended up confusing his own theory of fetishism by fixing a theological personhood to his prayer shawl.17 In Velos,18 Derrida considers the need to develop what he refers to as "a tallith' s politics" in the context of the ...
Virginia Burrus, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TALLITH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tallith is used in the context of the following news items.
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Beit Chaverim celebrates rabbi's 10th anniversary
As a gift to the rabbi, the congregation chose a new Tallith, a shawl-like garment worn during prayers. The final presentation was a Memory Book that included ... «So Md News, Jun 15»
2
Smart as a Rabbi
Needless to say, she blew my tallith off. I gave her the part, and we went straight to Malibu. I fed her fresh herring all weekend. She fed me a little redhead lovin'. «VICE, May 12»
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Religion. Une cérémonie célèbre la majorité religieuse du jeune juif …
Le tallith (le châle), les tefillins (les petites boîtes en cuir) et la Torah : le jeune garçon est prêt pour sa Bat Mitsva. Photo DR ... «Le JSL, Feb 12»
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religion. À la découverte du judaïsme. Kippa et tallith : deux symboles
Lors du don du tallith, après la bénédiction, l'homme doit s'entourer totalement dans ce châle, la tête couverte et rester ainsi suivant la tradition le temps de ... «Le JSL, Nov 11»
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Weddings blend cultures as well as families
Instead, David had his friends play drums, and he wore a traditional yarmulke and tallith (prayer shawl) that had been his father's and grandfather's, as captured ... «CNN, Jul 11»
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Activist challenges ultra-Orthodox control over holy sites
“I am not the only woman wearing a tallith [prayer shawl] and holding a Torah scroll and praying out loud. I am one of many, many millions of women who are ... «National Post, Jan 11»
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C'est l'histoire de Moshe qui…
Puis il sort du même petit sac un tallith, un châle de prière, dont il enveloppe ses ailes. Enfin, en se balançant d'avant en arrière, il récite le Shema Israël. «Libération, Sep 10»
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Wer falsch liest, wird mit Süßis beworfen
In den Vitrinen liegen Gebetsriemen (Teffillin) und ein Gebetsschal (Tallith). Bei den meisten Objekten handelt es sich um Schenkungen von Mitgliedern der ... «Badische Zeitung, Sep 10»
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Root, Tomato, Tallith: Three Objects
In David Cronenberg's film The Fly (1986) the unfortunate hero, an ambitious scientist, accidentally fuses his own DNA with that of a housefly. As a result he ... «Philosophy Now, Feb 10»
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Shimon Peres' Remarks to the Bundestag: 'The Holocaust Raises …
I see him with his white beard and dark eyebrows, enveloped in his Tallith (praying shawl), among the congregation praying in the synagogue, in the town where ... «Spiegel Online, Jan 10»

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« EDUCALINGO. Tallith [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/tallith>. May 2024 ».
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