Talmud for Menachot 80:3
והתורה אמרה תעשה ולא מן העשוי
reported in the name of R''Zera: The apprehension is that the linen garment may have been torn within three fingerbreadths' distance [from the hem] and it had been sewn together [with linen threads, and the threads were left hanging for the fringe],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that when the garment is repaired it is already provided with part of the fringe, which is invalid for the precept.');"><sup>5</sup></span> and the Torah has said, 'Thou shalt make<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XXII, 12.');"><sup>6</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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