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    Sha'ul - Tent, Saddle or Tallit-Maker?

    Posted by Lev/Christopher on July 31, 2008 at 5:45am
    in Torah Studies

    In a private blog on a nother group we were having a discussion on headcoverings and it was suggested that Sha'ul was not a tent-maker but a "little-tent" or Tallit-maker. I have been reading around looking for reliable sources but all the commentators say they heard it from someone else and that there is no concrete scholarly evidence

    e.g. http://www.rabdavis.org/tallit_in_the_nt.htm

    Does anyone have anything reliable they can offer?

    However, the Peshitta says that Sha'ul and Aquila were "fellow craftsmen" and that they were "saddle makers" (Ac.18:2-3, HRV).

    Since the Greek MSS say "tent-maker" and the Aramaic Peshitta says "saddle maker", I should like to know why the RSTNE uses "tallit-maker". On what MS authority is this rendition given?


    If Trimm hadn't unceremoniously booted me from his group for, I imagine, no other reason than I belonged to another one he doesn't approve of, I would have asked him for his take since he is a scholar. I'd ask Roth too only he's on a similar campaign. So I guess it's either a tent or a saddle - though I admit I have difficulty imagining Paul in either trade. I am trying to picture him on his missionary journeys carrying all his equipment around. Tents and saddles are not small items unless he travelled light and set up shop afresh when he came to a new city. I can see how tallit would be easier in that respect.

    From the Encyclopedia Judaica:

    "TALLIT (Heb. TyZt, pl. tallitot; Yid. tales, pl. talesim), prayer shawl. Originally the word meant "gown" or "cloak." This was a rectangular mantle that looked like a blanket and was worn by men in ancient times. At the four corners of the tallit tassels were attached in fulfillment of the biblical commandment of zizit (Num. 15:38–41). The tallit was usually made either of wool or of linen (Men. 39b) and probably resembled the abbayah ("blanket") still worn by Bedouin for protection against the weather. The tallit made of finer quality was similar to the Roman pallium and was worn mostly by the wealthy and by distinguished rabbis and scholars (BB 98a). The length of the mantle was to be a handbreadth shorter than that of the garment under it (BB 57b). After the exile of the Jews from Erez Israel and their dispersion, they came to adopt the fashions of their gentile neighbors more readily. The tallit was discarded as a daily habit and it became a religious garment for prayer; hence its later meaning of prayer shawl. The tallit is usually white and made either of wool, cotton, or silk, although Maimonides and Alfasi objected to the use of the latter. Strictly observant Jews prefer tallitot made of coarse half-bleached lamb's wool. In remembrance of the blue thread of the zizit (see tekhelet), most tallitot have several blue stripes woven into the white material (see Zohar, Num. 227a). Until recently, however, they only had black stripes. The minimum size of a tallit is that which would suffice to clothe a small child able to walk (Sh. Ar., OH 16:1)."

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