Editing Tallit (section)

== Women ==
{{Main|Tzitzit#Tzitzit for women}}
In rabbinic law, women are not required to wear a ''tallit'' or other forms of ''tzitzit''. The vast majority of contemporary Orthodox authorities forbid the donning of a tallit by women,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Personal-Notes/Why-do-Orthodox-women-not-wear-tefillin-or-tallit |title=Why do Orthodox women not wear tefillin or tallit? |author=Shlomo Brody |date=October 15, 2010 |access-date=January 26, 2019 |work=The Jerusalem Post |publisher=Jpost Inc.}}</ref> although [[Moshe Feinstein]],<ref>Igrot Moshe, [[Orah Hayyim]] 4:49, s.v. ibra d'ika</ref> [[Joseph Soloveitchik]], and [[Eliezer Melamed]] approve women wearing tzitzit in private, if their motivation is "for God's sake" rather than motivated by external movements such as feminism.<ref name="ph">{{cite web |url=https://ph.yhb.org.il/en/03-21-05/ |title=Women and Tzitzit |work=Peninei Halakha |author=Eliezer Melamed}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/587787/jewish/Is-it-appropriate-for-a-woman-to-wear-a-tallit.htm |title=Is it appropriate for a woman to wear a tallit? |publisher=Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.aish.com/atr/Tallit_-_Women.html |title=Tallit - Women |series=Ask the Rabbi |work=Aish.com}}</ref> At the gender-segregated sections of the [[Western Wall]], women have been permitted to wear shawls worn around the neck—but harassed, expelled or arrested for wearing the more traditional garments outside the segregated men's section.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/Woman-detained-at-Kotel-for-wearing-tallit |title=Woman Detained at Kotel for Wearing Tallit |first1=Jeremy |last1=Sharon |first2=Melanie |last2=Lidman |date=June 21, 2012 |work=The Jerusalem Post}}</ref>
[[File:Woman praying with tallit.jpg|thumb|Woman praying with tallit]]
Women in non-Orthodox ([[Reform Judaism|Reform]], [[Conservative Judaism|Conservative]], [[Karaite Judaism|Karaite]], [[Reconstructionist Judaism|Reconstructionist]] and others) are not prohibited from wearing a ''tallit'', and usually encouraged to do so, especially when called to the Torah or leading services from the [[Bema#Judaism|bimah]]. Women in Conservative Judaism began to revive the wearing of the tallit in the 1970s, usually using colors and fabrics distinct from the traditional garment worn by men, in the spirit of (but not necessarily out of adherence to) the contemporary Orthodox rulings regarding women not wearing "male-style" garments.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.utoronto.ca/wjudaism/contemporary/articles/Tallitot/a_shulman_herz_1.html |title=The Transformation of Tallitot: How Jewish Prayer Shawls Have Changed Since Women Began Wearing Them |author=Rebecca Shulman Herz |journal=Women in Judaism: Contemporary Writings |publisher=University of Toronto |volume=3 |number=2 |year=2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317125946/http://www.utoronto.ca:80/wjudaism/contemporary/articles/Tallitot/a_shulman_herz_1.html |archive-date=2012-03-17}}</ref> It has become common in [[Reform Judaism|Reform]] and other non-Orthodox streams for girls to receive a tallit at their bat mitzvah,<ref>{{cite book|author=Carin Davis|title=Life, Love, Lox: Real-World Advice for the Modern Jewish Girl|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g1xXDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT22|date=25 May 2010|publisher=Running Press|isbn=978-0-7624-4041-2|page=22}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Debra Nussbaum Cohen|title=Celebrating Your New Jewish Daughter: Creating Jewish Ways to Welcome Baby Girls Into the Covenant : New and Traditional Ceremonies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W7ZilJOAWuQC&pg=PA134|year=2001|publisher=Jewish Lights Publishing|isbn=978-1-58023-090-2|page=134}}</ref> although some do not subsequently wear it on a regular basis.<ref name="Gordan">{{cite book|last=Gordan|first=Rachel|editor=Leonard Jay Greenspoon|title=Fashioning Jews: Clothing, Culture, and Commerce|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fZOtAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA167|year=2013|publisher=Purdue University Press|isbn=978-1-55753-657-0|pages=167–176}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=A Travelling Tallit: Interview with Rabbi Bea Wyler |date=27 June 2022 |url=https://www.juedisches-museum.ch/en/a-travelling-tallit/ |access-date=2022-11-10}}</ref> Other women have adopted the tallit later in life, including the larger, traditional style, to connect with their communities, embody egalitarian values, or create a personalized connection to Judaism.<ref name="Gordan"/><ref>See [[Women of the Wall]] for other political and/or feminist motivations</ref> It is rare for women to wear a tallit katan.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://forward.com/articles/196159/observant-women-make-tzitzit-and-stir-controvers/ |title=Observant Women Make Tzitzit — and Stir Controversy |first=Lauren |last=Davidson |date=April 9, 2014 |work=The Forward |url-access=subscription}}</ref>