Translation:Shulchan Aruch/Orach Chaim/10
10: Laws of the Corners of the Shawl.
1 A tallit that does not have four corners is exempt. One with more than four requires, and four tzitzit should be put on the four corners that are the furthest from each other.
2 If it has four and one gets cut off crosswise to make two, this has now made it a five-cornered one which requires.
3 If one folded the corners of his tallit and tied them up or sewed them and it looks like it has been trimmed and has no corners, even so it is not exempt.
4 A tallit of cloth and its corners are from leather requires. One made of leather and its corners are from cloth is exempt.
5 One that had three corners on which one has put three tzitzit and then made a fourth corner and put tzitzit on that one too, is invalid because one must actively make it, rather than have them passively made.
6 One should not fold the tallit and put tzitzit on the corners that result from folding. [Gloss: But one must put on the four original corners] [Bet Yosef], unless he entirely sewed it up, even on one side. [Gloss: And there are those who say that they are required even without it being sewn up and it is good to put tzitzit on it, but not to make a blessing on it. [The Rif and the Rosh and the Tur].
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If one hung tzitzit on tzitzit, if it was his intention to nullify the first, one cuts the first and it is then valid, and if his intention was to add, even if he cut one of the two, it is invalid.
[Gloss: And there are those who allow it to be done in any way and this is the main view] [Tur in the name of the Rosh and Rabbenu Yerucham, Netiv 18 Part 3] and before the first one was cut, it is invalid regardless of how it was done [Beis Yosef].
7 Garments which are open from the sides down and have four corners on the lower part and are closed on the upper part: if its majority is closed, it is exempt. And if its majority is open, it requires. And if half of it is closed and half of it is open, one treats it stringently and it requires tzitzit, and one must not go out with it on the Sabbath.
8 An overcoat which is open, in a way in which it has four corners: if one affixes strings to close it up in order to exempt it from tzitzit, it is ineffective unless it fastens at least from half the length and below and should also be fastened below the belt in order that the majority that is closed should be a majority that appears to the eyes; for if not, it would be forbidden because of the "appearance to the eye".
9 The corners must be squared off and should not be rounded.
10 A turban is exempt, even those from the Western lands where both its sides are tossed over their shoulders and their body. And even though one covers with it one's head and one's majority, it is exempt, because its main purpose is to cover the head, for the Torah requires "your coverage" but not the coverage of the head.
11 A shawl placed on the neck in the kingdom of the land of Israel which is called in Arabic shid, and so too a bika that they would put in Spain over their shoulders, are exempt.
12 Egyptian garments called guchash and so too mintini and dulamanish and kaftanis and pidunish of Turkey, even if they have four corners, they are exempt. (Gloss: And so too is the law with the garments of the regions of the people of Ashkenaz and Sefarad, since their corners are not fashioned in a manner that places two before them and two behind them directed against each other, (they are exempt) (Beis Yosef according to the reasoning of MHRY"K.