Talmud for Menachot 81:20
תניא נמי הכי טלית שנקרעה חוץ לשלש יתפור תוך שלש רבי מאיר אומר לא יתפור וחכ"א יתפור
[For it was taught]: The pious men of old used to insert the fringes as soon as three fingerbreadths of the garment had been woven?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Clearly because the obligation rests upon the garment as soon as it is made, for if it were a personal obligation the duty to insert fringes would arise only when the garment was about to be worn.');"><sup>12</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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