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[[File:tzitzit.jpg|right|thumb|What is the [[Fringe]], the [[Tzitzit]] (תציצ)? Is it tassels on a piece of cloth or is it the blossoming of the Spirit in the daily life God grants us? Is it about blue  threads or is it about the threads of [[righteousness]] and [[faith]] which leads to ''perfection''? In the imagination of men has it become about self-righteous rituals unmoored from their meaning through the prideful [[Sophistry]] of the [[foolish]]?<Br>What does the Husband of the Bride desire? What has the Lord, King, Creator, Father instructed us to do in the [[torah]]  to have [[eternal life]], peace, wholeness, blessings, health, etc.? Have we unmoored the [[metaphor]] from its meaning? Have we formed an allegiance to an [[idolatry|idolatrous]] interpretation of an [[allegory]] and remained blind to the "hidden meaning" and "moral" it offers? Are we doing the righteous will of the Father or gleaning self-righteousness from the rituals of our imagination?]]

== The Fringe Element ==

* ''Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them [[fringes]] in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe [Tzitzit (תציצ)] of the borders<Ref name="kanaph">{{03671}}</Ref> a ribband of blue: And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a [[Whordom|whoring]]:'' [[Numbers 15]]:38-39 
 
I was asked:
 
<blockquote>''I've been doing some study on the Tzitzits and whether it is a command to wear them if you are non-Jew. The Scripture seems to indicate wearing 4 of them, each corner of your garment, where they can be seen, every day, 7 days a week other than sleep time. Any thoughts? Your understanding of this would be much appreciated.''</blockquote>

By '''Tzitzits''',  he means the תציצ or  '''tzitzit''' or ''tsiytsith'' (pronounced 'tsee-tseeth’) which we see in [[Numbers 15]]:38 as ''fringes'' or ''tassel'':
*   ''Speak unto the children of [[Israel]], and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:'' 

The word  ''tzitzit'' <Ref name="tzitzit">{{06734}}</Ref> is composed of four letters:
 
* {{Tzadik}}
* {{Yod}}
* {{Tzadik}}
* {{Tav}}

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The word  ''tzitzit'' is from a word that is said to mean ''flower''.<Ref>{{06733}}</Ref>
Instead of ending in a Tav like the word ''tzitzit'' the word ''tzitzah'' ends in the letter [[Hey]]. This changes the meaning by adding and removing ideas contained in the letters.

The TAV of faith Seals the Higher keter (crown) to the [[malchut]] (Kingdom)  through faith  and humility by linking realms. 

We are suppose to [[seek]] the [[kingdom of God]] and His [[righteousness]] as [[doers]] of the word. The roots of the word [[fringes|fringe]] include the ideas associated with the symbols of blossoms or wings and feathers. Even the word ''border''<Ref name="kanaph">{{03671}}</Ref> in the text  means wing.

That [[fringe]] is simply a reminder of the [[righteousness]] of God and the [[kingdom of God|Kingdom]] which we should be seeking every day.

The letter Hey or ה [[Hey]] is connected to the Expression or Thought, Speech, Action. It has to do with the ''manifesting'' of things from seeds of thought and life.

If you remove the ending letter you end up with the root word tsiyts  ץיצ.<Ref>{{06731}}</Ref> 

The word tsiyts ץיצ is translated ''flower'' 10 times and  ''plate'' 3 times and ''blossom'' once but also  ''wings'' once. The word tsiyts ץיצ is a root word composed of three letters and produces the word ''tzitzit'' by adding the letter Tav which is the ''Mark of God'' and the letter that means ''[[Faith|faith]]''.

The word tsiyts ץיצ is also said to be from tsuwts ץוצ <Ref name="tsuwts-2">{{06692}}</Ref> which, while it has the same letters, is assigned a different Strong's number. It is said to mean "to blossom, shine, sparkle" and is translated ''flourish'' five times, ''blossom'' twice, and ''bloomed'' and ''shewing'' once each.
 
[[File:Tzitzisknot.jpg|right|thumb|Are knots and string important to God or blossoms and [[fruit]]? [[Christ]] took the kingdom from the [[Pharisees]] who wore the [[fringes]] but were not bearing [[fruit]].]]

Because most words in Hebrew have both a physical and an abstract meaning, it is not difficult for the Sophist to unmoore the meaning of the word from the spiritual significance and get the humanist nature of man to focus on the form or ritual rather than its true meaning.

While the word ''tzitzit'' only appears a few times in the Bible<Ref>Numbers 15:38  Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes <[[06734]]> in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe <06734> of the borders a ribband of blue:
: Numbers 15:39  And it shall be unto you for a [[fringe]] <[[06734]]>, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
: Ezekiel 8:3  And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock <06734> of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.</Ref> there is another place we see what appears to be a call for ''fringes''. But another completely different word, ''Gidel'', is used.

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== Gidel ==

Gidel only appears as "fringe" once in [[Deuteronomy 22]]:12<Ref>Deuteronomy 22:12  Thou shalt make thee fringes <[[01434]]> upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.</Ref>, but also as the word ''wreath'' in [[1 Kings 7]]
<Ref>[[1 Kings 7]]:17  And nets of checker work, and wreaths <[[01434]]> of chain work, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.</Ref>

The word there is ''gedil'' לדג .<Ref>{{01434}}</Ref>
 
The three letters that produce this word ''fringe'' are Gimel Daleth Lamed:

* ג Gimel Reward and Punish, Cause and effect. Do to others as they should do. Camel [throwstick pride to lift up]3
* ד DALET Selflessness – Charity, back and forth (door) pathway enter... fish)4
* ל LAMED Aspiration of the Heart to learn or direct like a shepherd [Hand prod, staff, whip... tongue]30

These same letters produce several words from Strong's numbers [[01431]] to [[01435]], but it is said that these same letters are the root word of ''gadal'' לדג <Ref name="gadal">{{01431}}</Ref> which all have a similar meaning ''to magnify'', ''make greater'', ''nourish up'', ''grow up'', etc..

All these words have a meaning of going from a ''blossom'' to ''a flower'' or ''nourishing up'' or ''making greater'' or ''growing''. 


== The hassle with tassels ==


Is the text really talking about strings of fringe attached to your clothes?

Why blue thread and why four and what is meant by the corners?
<blockquote> 
The word "blue" we see is tëkeleth.<Ref>{{08504}}</Ref> It is composed of the letters TavKafLamedTav having the meaning of:
* {{Tav}}
* {{Kaf}}
* {{Lamed}}
* {{Tav}}
There is another word TavKafLamedYodTav<Ref>{{08503}}</Ref> where the word blue includes the [[Yod]] and becomes "perfection, consummation, completion, completeness".

Blue is about the crown (keter) every man must seel like the [[righteousness]] of God.

Is God really concerned with fringes and tassels of cloth  or underwear and [[breeches]] of [[priest]]s or is there always a deeper meaning to the letters and the words which has often been obscured by the '''[[Sophistry]]''' of those who would unmoore that meaning from the precepts of God becoming [[idols]] of [[false religion]]?

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=== Fringe religion ===

Moses was teaching the people the way of righteousness and liberty under God.

What does fringe on your cloths have to do with righteousness? 
Unmooring the meaning of his words we alter His doctrine where may call his name but become workers of [[iniquity]] like the Pharisees who rejected Christ.

Is getting the [[Leaven]] out of our borders about removing yeast or ''cruelty'' from they way of ourselves and nation?

Why were people to make [[altars]] of [[clay and stone]]?

Why were the people to weave the [[breeches]] of the [[Levites]]?

Was the going up by [[steps]] about [[naked]]ness, or un[[hewn]] stones about chiseling rocks?

Why is the [[Sabbath]] so significant, was it a way or a day?

To turn the meaning of Tzitzit (תציצ) into physical ''[[fringe]]" alone and neglect the duty of [[pure Religion]] is to neglect our duty to God and our fellowman which is to [[care]] for one another in the [[righteousness]] of God through [[charity]] and not the [[force]] used by [[Pharaoh]] and [[Nimrod]].

The fringes or tassels are only a reminder of what the  [[whordom]] of the nation when their desire was to return to the way of Egypt and the other [[city-states]]like [[Sumer]] and eat of the [[tables]] of those rulers and the [[turtledove|dove Goddess]] who besides being the symbol of their [[welfare State]] often wore garments with rows of fringe to signify how plenteous was her bounty and her authority, but those gifts and gratuities destroyed liberty people<Ref name="desliberty">{{desliberty}}</Ref>  and always [[degenerate]] the [[masses]].

If we were made in the image of God when we chose to decide for ourselves what was good and what was evil were we made in another image or at least altered or degenerated by sin into [[perfect savages]]?

If we are to be brothers in Christ should we not do [[doctrines of Jesus|what he said]] and certainly what he [[commanded]]?

If we want to be [[Torah]] keepers are we sure we know what the Torah was really telling us? 

The [[Pharisees]] thought they knew but evidently missed it some how.

How do we [[repent]] and return to the [[Kingdom of God]]?

All the attributes of God must unfold in the heart, mind, and body of mankind as the blossom unfolds in a flower. Like pedals on a flower the ''Tzitzits''  has four fringes. Those fringes or tassels are only symbolic of those attributes of God that are manifested in the actions of Mankind. 

This is why being a [[doer]] of the word is emphasized by [[Christ]] and the [[Apostles]]. We are [[warned]] by [[Jesus]], the [[apostles]] and the [[prophets]] that if we are not [[doers]] of the word, followers the [[doctrines of Jesus]], add what he [[commanded]], then we are falling short and are in danger of being counted as [[workers of iniquity]]. It is the ''blossoming'' or the four [[fringes]] of our individual covering through or sincerity of our [[seek]]ing, striving, and perseverance that is key to the Malchut or [[Kingdom of God]]. It is not the rituals nor the intellectual Gnostic descriptions and certainly not the superficial interpretations of the precepts upon precepts of the ancient text.

If we are to remember all the commandments of the LORD we must also recall that we cannot [[covet]] anything that is our neighbors nor shall we have strange gods which often offer the [[dainties]] of rulers from a [[table]] that is a [[snare]]. If we are to seek [[the way]] of God which is [[righteousness]] in our heart and in our minds.<Ref name="heartmind">{{heartmind}}</Ref> 

=== Not the letter nor rituals ===

We should know that the letter and rituals we perform are not the spirit that gives life.<Ref>2 Corinthians 3:6  Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.</Ref>

: "And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." [[Matthew 16]]:19 

What we do or not do, what we desire or not desire is what binds us, entangles us, in and to the world.

If we couple those ideas with ''be fruitful and multiply'' or the parable of the ''[[talent]]s'' in [[Matthew 25]] where someone did nothing with what he had to cause an increase and was condemned for it. We should be able to see that it is more important to seek a nurturing approach of [[love]] and [[sacrifice]] in all things, in all directions of our life than to perform an external physical ritual. Are we under a [[strong delusion]] if we imagine our self justified by a ceremonial imitation and symbols rather than the blossoming of true [[righteousness]] in doing what the [[early Israel|Israelite]] people did in the days of [[Moses]] or the [[early Christians]] did in the [[early Church|first century Church]].

The [[Pharisees]] kept the ritual but abandoned the spirit [[Moses]] spoke of and therefore did not know [[Jesus]] was the [[Messiah]], the [[Christ]] nor would they do what He [[commanded]] as the [[Messiah]]. They wore their [[fringes]] and were called  ''whited sepulchres''. If we try in anyway to use the symbols and ritual to justify ourselves before God we will drift away from the message, spirit, and its purpose. We will fail to bloom in the light of the [[Holy Spirit]]. Our pride will block our growth in the [[Holy Spirit]]. 

No one should imagine that by wearing [[fringes]] or sowing [[Breeches]] or keeping the [[Sabbath]] on a special calculated day or even by having [[Feasts]] we can be justified before God. If we are clinging to the outward form in any way we will drift away from the message of [[The Way]] and its purpose and fail to bloom in the light of the [[Holy Spirit]]. If we fail to bloom then that is evidence we are not "keeping the [[Torah]]" and we will not find the [[Malchut]] of the Lord God.

Are we a kingdom sitting down in the [[tens]] as [[commanded]] by [[Christ]] practicing the [[righteousness]] of [[Pure Religion]]?

Are we the [[little flock]] that was [[appoint]]ed a kingdom or are we a scattering the flock through our self-righteousness opinions which we [[worship]] in [[false religion]]?

Where is the [[ekklesia]], the [[called out]], the [[Church]] established by Christ who preach [[Doctrines of Jesus|His Doctrines]]?

Were is the [[daily ministration]] of God provided for the people in [[love]] by [[faith]] through [[charity]] or do we still eat at the tables of [[benefactors]] who [[exercise authority]] and promote the unrighteous [[mammon]] through the [[covetous practices]] which have made the people [[merchandise]] and [[cursed children]]?

Is it in the fringe?

Is it in your words and names and days?

The fringe is how we blossom in the talents and covering God gives us. It is what we do. If we will not do what Christ said then no fringe, nor unmoored [[ritual]] will save you anymore than it saved the [[Pharisees]] at the fall of [[Jerusalem]].

This is the message of the "[[fringes]]". If we think it is about twisty threads on cloth then you have unmoored the wisdom of God from His teachings and the words of the [[prophets]] and may be as [[strong delusion|delusion]]al as the [[Pharisees]].

If you think it is about knots and strings you have fallen for the [[Sophistry]] of [[Satan]]. 

The [[Breeches]] to be sown by the people of God for their [[Levites|Levite]] ministers had nothing to do with ''underwear'' and the fringes of our own covering has nothing to do with twisting twine. The word and law of God is Spirit. It is about faith in all four corners of our heart blossoming into the righteous actions of our lives according to the love of of the Creator of life. Let God write upon your hearts and upon your minds.