Prior to beginning the wraps, take the ends of the left side and tie them together in a slip knot.
A good suggestion is to wind the 7 whites into a column and wrap them around the pinky of your left hand; pulling taut against the garment while you are wrapping.
Now you begin the first set of seven wraps, in 3 groupings, 3, 3, 1. Placing the techelet cord over the column, wrap the techelet 3 times...
| The Talmud, referring to the verse, "This is my G-d and I will glorify Him", (Ex.15:2), explains it to mean, that it is our duty to beautify the commandments of G-d as for example to have beautiful scrolls of the Law, beautiful boothes on Succot, and beautiful fringed garments, (Shabbat 133b). |
