0391 - Why to Have a Silk Lining in the Tallis - Harav Leibel Groner

00:01 It is known that there is an inion to have a silk lining in the talus. When you have inside the talus, you have the lining there. So it's an inion to have it to be made of zeit, made of silk. Now, before I got married and I was preparing to get my talus, Tovshin Lamadalef, I went over to Rabbi Leibl Groner and asked him if he heard from the Rebbe anything about it. Did the Rebbe say it or did the Rebbe give a reason why? So he told me that before he got married, he asked the Rebbe. And the Rebbe told him, yes, you should get a silk lining to the talus. And the Rebbe gave him three reasons why. He says two reasons he remembered then, and the third reason he said he didn't remember. Already in Tovshin Lamadalef, he said he didn't remember the third reason. But the third re- the first two reasons were, number one, because that's what the Friediger Rebbe had. He said the shred had that. The shred had the silk lining. We made, let's say, you have to have a lining. And the second thing he said, that when you have a silk lining, the talus constantly falls off, and constantly you have to fix it. So this is one of the things that remind you constantly that you're wearing the talus and you're doing the mitzvah of tzitzis. So that's another reason why you should have silk. So it should always be in your mind to remember

01:16 that you're wearing a talus. And the third reason he said, even then, already he didn't remember.