Word: tallithim
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...symbol of fellowship degenerated sometimes into sexual scandal. In the Middle Ages, knights kissed before doing battle, just as boxers touch gloves. The varieties of kisses are numerous: the kiss of treachery (Judas' example), the Mafia kiss of death, the kiss of reverence with which rabbis don their tallithim and priests their stoles. Children hold out a hurt hand for a kiss "to make it well...
...provide Jews in the armed services with tallithim (fringed white-&-blue prayer shawls), haggadahs (Passover prayer-books), abridged Bibles and hymnals...
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