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RobGuy wrote: But another question for those who wear them, how do you deal with wearing them at your work? For instance, I work in a restaurant, and we of course have a dress code. I don't know whether or not I will be allowed to wear them there or not. How do you deal with that situation? Have you noticed your bosses/places of employment having a negative attitude towards them or not? Thanks!
RG,
Because I am retired, I cannot give you a "yes" or "no" answer. However, I believe that our Father is very gracious and would not hold it against you if your employer forbad the wearing of tassels at work. My justification for believing that comes from 2 Kings 5:1-19:
2 Kings 5:1-19 wrote: Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man with his master, and highly respected, because by him the LORD had given victory to Aram. The man was also a valiant warrior, but he was a leper.
The Arameans had gone out in bands and had taken captive a little girl from the land of Israel; and she waited on Naaman's wife. She said to her mistress, "I wish that my master were with the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would cure him of his leprosy."
Naaman went in and told his master, saying, "Thus and thus spoke the girl who is from the land of Israel."
Then the king of Aram said, "Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel."
He departed and took with him ten talents of silver and six thousand shekels of gold and ten changes of clothes. He brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, "And now as this letter comes to you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may cure him of his leprosy."
When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, "Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man is sending word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? But consider now, and see how he is seeking a quarrel against me."
It happened when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent word to the king, saying, "Why have you torn your clothes? Now let him come to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel."
So Naaman came with his horses and his chariots and stood at the doorway of the house of Elisha. Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, "Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh will be restored to you and you will be clean."
But Naaman was furious and went away and said, "Behold, I thought, 'He will surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of Yahuweh, his God, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leper.' Are not Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?"
So he turned and went away in a rage. Then his servants came near and spoke to him and said, "My father, had the prophet told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, 'Wash, and be clean'?"
So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child and he was clean. When he returned to the man of God with all his company, and came and stood before him, he said, "Behold now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel; so please take a present from your servant now."
But he said, "As Yahuweh lives, before whom I stand, I will take nothing."
And he urged him to take it, but he refused. Naaman said, "If not, please let your servant at least be given two mules' load of earth; for your servant will no longer offer burnt offering nor will he sacrifice to other gods, but to Yahuweh. In this matter may Yahuweh pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, when I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, Yahuweh pardon your servant in this matter."
He said to him, "Go in peace." ...
Naaman was fearful of Yahuweh's reaction to his having to bow the knee to a false god. How was the prophet of Yahuweh instructed to answer him? "Go in peace." To me, that was like saying, "Don't worry about it. Yahuweh looks not at the outward appearance, but at the heart."
RG, I don't always wear my tassels, but I don't have a problem with someone questioning me about them. So far, though, no one has. As for getting a set, make 'em yourself! There are no instructions for making them other than they must each contain a blue thread. That's it. There is a video at EliYah's web site showing his daughter making tassels according to a certain tradition. She uses the blue thread to make wraps around the other threads so that the number of times each wrap encircles the other threads represents one of the letters, YHWH. For instance, the first wrap encircles the other threads 10 times because Yod is the 10th letter in the Hebrew alphabet, the second wrap 5 times to represent Hey, and so on. Step by step instructions may be found here. But again, there are no instructions in the Scriptures regarding how to make the tassels, other than they must each have a blue thread.
Hope this helps, brother.
Richard
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