thanks for the response! the 'those things' I was talking about were from post #19 here:
As a Torah observer I'll be honost, for the years of observance I still do not know what the "cutting the edges of the beard" means. So I just keep a nice simple beard, and I don't chastise people who don't grow them. So I don't what a legalistic way of following that would be.
If you read the verse on the tassels they are basically a reminder of the commandments, kind of like if someone wore a WWJD bracelet.
Again with both of these, I'm not fully sure what a legalistic idea on them would be other than if someone asks about them if you chastise them for it. People ask me about my tassels all the time, and I tell them what they are and leave it at that. There have been times where the tassel has lead to discussion in my faith which lead to me leading someone to Christ.
Now did I tell this person to go out and put tassels on?
No.
I told them that there needs to be the acceptance of Yeshua in their heart, wearing the tassels does not give you salvation nor does it make them better.
I tell them to study the word.
Now if that person goes to a point where they think wearing tassels is something they want to do, so be it.
If not, well then ok. It's not my call.
I'm not going to force it on someone.
Also do I wear them so people will ask what they are?
No, I wear them because it says in Numbers 15:37-41, "[SUP]
37 [/SUP]Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, [SUP]
38 [/SUP]“Speak to the children of Israel: Tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a blue thread in the tassels of the corners. [SUP]
39 [/SUP]And you shall have the tassel, that you may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them, and that you
may not follow the harlotry to which your own heart and your own eyes are inclined, [SUP]
40 [/SUP]and that you may remember and do all My commandments, and be holy for your God. [SUP]
41 [/SUP]I
am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I
am the Lord your God.”
So wearing the tassels is more of a reminder of what the Lord did for me/us in both physical Egypt and spiritual Egypt, and a reminder of the commandments that were given and the Holy Spirit that was given.
It means nothing more than that.