BEER Ch. 4 The Red Herring

[Robin Landseadel]

Also Thomas Tallis, English Composer, 1505-1585. Famous mostly for his  
theme in "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis" by Ralph Vaughn  
Williams, a work colorfully cited in Against the Day.
On Oct 23, 2013, at 10:23 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:
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> Tallis
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> A tallit [taˈlit] (Hebrew: טַלִּית) (talet in Modern Hebrew,  
> Sephardic
> Hebrew and Ladino) (tallis, in Ashkenazic Hebrew and Yiddish) pl.
> tallitot (talleisim, tallism, in Ashkenazic Hebrew and Yiddish) is a
> Jewish prayer shawl.... In orthodox, Ashkenazi circles, a Tallit is
> customarily presented to a groom before marriage as part of the dowry.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallit
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