Essay · 8 September 2026
Why this is not tzitzit — and why it is still the mitzvah
The verse names two things on a corner. One of them was lost for thirteen centuries. We have it back, and we wear it.
PTIL
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Including the ones against us. Every serious objection is published here in full, with a reply underneath it.
Essay · 8 September 2026
The verse names two things on a corner. One of them was lost for thirteen centuries. We have it back, and we wear it.
PTIL
Essay · 7 September 2026
The verse as written, what later generations built on top of it, why no institution is asked to approve any of this, and what the name means read three ways.
PTIL
Published rebuttal · 7 September 2026
A serious objection: that attaching ritual vocabulary to a purchase cheapens both the verse and the people being raised for.
Objection published in full, with our reply
In reply to The corner of the garment
Halachic Q&A · 6 September 2026
If you wear one blue thread and call it the commandment, what is it — a stringency, an innovation, or neither?
Submitted anonymously
Essay · 5 September 2026
A commandment about the visible edge of a piece of cloth, arriving in a country full of injuries nobody can see.
PTIL
Published rebuttal · 2 September 2026
An objection sent to us in writing: the borrowing cheapens the verse. Printed as received, with our answer under it.
Submitted objection, with a reply
In reply to Is this tzitzit? No — and the verse is still being kept
Halachic Q&A · 26 August 2026
What we claim, what we do not claim, and the wool-and-linen question, answered directly.
Answered in the open