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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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wore would be ei<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong> so-called Ghltha, or,<br />

most likely, opperp^ <strong>the</strong> TdUith. Both <strong>the</strong> OoUha^<br />

<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> TaUith^ were provided, on •jer.Moed <strong>the</strong><br />

four borders, with <strong>the</strong> so-called Tsitsith, or *<br />

frincres.' <strong>The</strong>se were f" ** **<br />

_ , . ® * Kidd. 48 ft<br />

attached to <strong>the</strong> four comers <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> outer dress, in<br />

supposed fulfilment •suih. <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> comm<strong>and</strong>, Numb.<br />

xv. 38-41; Deut. xxii. 12. At first, this ob- ifj^****<br />

servance seems to have been comparatively<br />

simple. <strong>The</strong> question as 'soLtsft to <strong>the</strong> number <strong>of</strong><br />

filaments on <strong>the</strong>se ' fringes' was settled in accord-<br />

[if' ^*^ ance with <strong>the</strong> teaching <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> School <strong>of</strong><br />

Shammai. Four filaments ^itouwh. (not three, as <strong>the</strong><br />

Hillelites proposed), each <strong>of</strong> four finger-lengths<br />

(<strong>the</strong>se, as later tradition put it, doubled), <strong>and</strong><br />

attached to <strong>the</strong> four comers <strong>of</strong> what must be a<br />

strictly square garment—such were <strong>the</strong> earliest<br />

rules on <strong>the</strong> subject.* <strong>The</strong> Mishnah leaves it still a<br />

compa- i8iphr«,ed. ratively open question,<br />

whe<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong>se filaments were to be blue p.ii7«'^ or

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