Shawl/ Talit Prayer

The tallit  (prayer shawl) was to remind the Jew of the commandments of the Torah. How do the fringes of the tallit remind one of the commandments? The Jews’ search for a logical correlation between the tallit and the commandments of God was rewarded with intriguing discoveries. The numerical value of the word tzitzit (fringes) is 600. Each of the fringes contains 8 threads and 5 knots, making a total of 613. This number corresponds to the 613 commandments contained in the Torah.