FRINGE BENEFITS (VIDEO)
Rabbi Dunner explores the mitzvah of tzitzit – the ritual fringes mandated for every four-cornered garment, as found in Parshat Shlach. What are the hidden messages of this curious mitzvah, all the more curious because one is not mandated to wear a four-cornered garment, only to ensure that if one is worn, it has tzitzit on it.
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