Talmud for Menachot 80:2
אלא אמר רבא הא מילתא אמרי ואיתמר במערבא משום דרבי זירא כוותי שמא יקרע סדינו בתוך ג' ויתפרנו
- Rather, said Raba, I suggested the following explanation<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Why it is forbidden to insert the blue woollen threads in a linen garment.');"><sup>3</sup></span> and in the West it was similarly<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'in agreement with me'.');"><sup>4</sup></span>
Tractate Tzitzit
All1Even women. are subject to the obligation of zizith. R. Simeon exempts women since [the commandment of zizith] is a positive commandment which is dependent on a fixed time.2From which women are exempt. The duty of wearing zizith is restricted to day-time. Any minor who knows how to wrap himself with a ṭallith3lit. zizith, but applied to the shawl to which it is attached. [Cf. the wording of the benediction connected with the performance of the commandment in P.B., p. 14, where ‘fringed garment’ is simply zizith in the Heb.] should be provided with it by his father. A ṭallith which is [long enough to] cover one’s head and the greater part of the body is subject to zizith.
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