<P> A tallit (Hebrew: טַלִּית ‎ (taˈlit) talit in Modern Hebrew; tālēt in Sephardic Hebrew and Ladino; tallis in Ashkenazic Hebrew and Yiddish) (pl . tallitot (taliˈtot), talleisim, tallism in Ashkenazic Hebrew and Yiddish; ṭālēth / ṭelāyōth in Tiberian Hebrew) is a fringed garment traditionally worn by religious Jews . The tallit has special twined and knotted fringes known as tzitzit attached to its four corners . The cloth part is known as the "beged" (lit . garment) and is usually made from wool or cotton, although silk is sometimes used for a tallit gadol . </P> <P> The term is, to an extent, ambiguous . It can refer either to the "tallit katan", an item that can be worn over or under clothing and commonly referred to as "tzitzit", or to the "tallit gadol", a Jewish prayer shawl worn over the outer clothes during the morning prayers (Shacharit) and worn during all prayers on Yom Kippur . The term "tallit" alone, usually refers to the tallit gadol . </P>

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