The (prayer shawl) was to remind the Jew of the commandments of the Torah. How do the fringes of the tallit remind one of the commandments? The Jews’ search for a logical correlation between the tallit and the commandments of God was rewarded with intriguing discoveries. The numerical value of the word tzitzit (fringes) is 600. Each of the fringes contains 8 threads and 5 knots, making a total of 613. This number corresponds to the 613 commandments contained in the Torah.
