Submitted: Do you have a used Tallis that is sitting in your closet or shul?
Kanfei Yehudah needs these taleisim for the Chevrah Kadisha of Bergen County.
If the Tallis is in good condition, it is professionally cleaned and given to a mosad where it is once again being used for a mitzvah.
You can drop off the Tallis on the porch of 115 Arbutus Drive, Lakewood, New Jersey, or call 908-670-1791.
Thank you in advance.
is this a mitzvah? to take a talis which can be used with a bracha, and render it possul to be used in a way which is not a mitzvah and does not require a bracha??
to use someone’s own talis is one thing, but to take a good talis from a stranger?
even if it is currently not in use, it can be placed in shul for guests, or left at home for that Shabbos when someone comes and forgets his talis!
please ask a Rav!
Not a mitzvah to barry somebody with it ???????
a minhag to bury someone in their own talis
What about a bachur who never out on a talis?
Uh, Reading Comprehension-Where is there anywhere in the post that even suggests in the slightest, that the talis will be used to bury someone????
How about the words “Chevra Kadisha”????
The minhag is to bury a man in his talis. I would venture to guess, they deal with many who don’t have a talis of their own.
Any talisa is in usable. Condition is not made invalid as you suggested. 98% of what we get is valid and we leave it that way. Sometimes they are very dirty and no one will wear them. So that is what we use for burying people.
In America all are buried in their own talis and kittel.
The article says “If the tallis is in good condition, it is professionally cleaned and given to a mosad, where it is once again being used for a mitzvah.”