Talmud for Menachot 81:10
אמר ליה מי סברת חובת גברא הוא חובת טלית הוא זיל רמי לה
Our Rabbis taught: A garment that was folded over is subject to zizith, but R'Simeon declares it to be exempt.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For the garment might later become unfolded and spread out and the fringes will then be found to be in the middle of the garment, and not in the corner as required by law.');"><sup>7</sup></span>
Tractate Tzitzit
Ẓizith [of a ṭallith used as a shroud] upon a corpse should not be undone.25The removal of the zizith would be an insult to the dead, which is condemned in Prov. 17, 5, Whoso mocketh the poor blasphemeth his Maker, and a dead man is the poorest of all. Abba Saul b. Boṭhnith said, ‘My father told me, “When I die, undo the zizith [in my ṭallith] because they come within the category of holiness”‘.26And should be undone before the ṭallith is used as a shroud. The Sages said: It does not come within the category of holiness, so one may use it as a shroud for the dead or as a pack-saddle for an ass.
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