Shalom, I am Rabbi Jonathan Ginrburg of the Ezra-Habonim, Niles Township Jewish Congregation. This video is about Jewish covering their head. It is not just for bald spots like mine, but you will see Jews covering their heads. Now, what kind of covering well, this lot is of times people favorite especially kids. This is the easiest kind just call a Kippah or Yamaka. Spelled with an R Yramarka those who people covering their heads with a hair like that sometimes when they going to Synagogue, because their you can get a mass quantity, you get the simple with all cloth dealers like this. Often time you will see very religious orthodox man wearing Fedurahs and sometimes they group called the Kasinom where first Rimals like for hats for Sabbath and holidays.
I was once on a train wearing a Kippah like this and I can not remember color who but some lady stopped and said I know that, you Jews wear this ideas I see all this different colors and sizes, do you have different colors for the different days of the week? Well no, but sometimes different communities have different days in a week? Well, no but sometimes different communities have different colors like the orthodox community but very orthodox who often have all blacks simple black, but mine orthodox in others who have let us call kippah Scruea, Serugot a crochete kippah like this with different design, but the design really do not matter. Sometimes people will have light ones on Sabbath, but the main point is to cover your head. Now, in the bible people will probably cover their head because it was hot out there. Cover neck too where they get sunburned and until the middle ages it was not required to cover you head and even in Jewish prayer. The Talmud from 2000 years ago does say no one should walk more than 4 cubits without their head covered out of deference and respect to God. I know that Christians for example take their hat off as a sign of respect. We put our hat off as a of sign respect to remember that God is all around us. Now, it does not have the same religious saying to the occasion impact as our filatures that we wear that to feel in or a prayer shawl, but today it is considered more significant, in fact in my life time I went to North Orthodox day school growing up and I think I recall the teachers not necessarily wearing a Yamaka or Kippah on the street, but when they came in the house of the school, they would wear one.
In today, we definitely recommend when you are studying Torah. When you are praying, when you are eating and reciting the grace after meals you should have your head covered. Today, even women are covering their head. Now, some women covered head at the modesty when their married, but non orthodox women are more, more covering their head in prayer worship, because they say we should be egalitarian of men cover their head for respect then women should cover their head for respect.
I will tell you a joke about a head covering. A fellow is walking alone and his head blows away and the fellow chase the dawn and brings it back to him and start talking and it is the Rabbi. Rabbi has had blown off and the fellow found this. So the Rabbi; the gratitude said thank you very much for rescuing my head hairs a little reward gives him $5, no you do not have do that, no you do not have that so the man take the $5 and feeling lucky. He goes the race track and he said; ah! Since the Rabbi gave me $5 I am going to welcome Caesar horse that has the name Derby. Ishlah must be my lucky day for hats so; he bets on Derby and wins. Slightly he said I will stay for another race and he looks down and he sees that there is another horse in the next race named Fedora. Hey, that is another horse and that wins. Third race there is a horse named Statuny that is a nut horse, so nut horse wins. And then he loses all his money on the lace race comes home very upset. He tells his wife the story, who did you bet on the last race? He says; Chatue that is the French for hatch she goes no you dummy it is Chapo, it was a P not a T, by the way who won that last race? He said; I do not know some Japanese horse name Yarmulkes. So, what is Yarmulkes? Well, Yrmul and, I think the best way to understand there is a few understand as two aromatic word the first one being Year which means to be all alve the second one Malka for the king when you wear a Yarmulkes you are being in alve the king.
Kippah simply means covering and it really does not matter much how you cover your head, but that you do out of the sense of saying to the occasion it reminds you of God’s presents. So, those are some of the basic ideas about the covering your head in Judaism. It is really the size does not matter in the angle. You know, some kids from certain Yishiva orthodox kind of been on the side. There is a group in Israel of religious that were big ones, but the point is simply to cover your head and I think fither on the rough of I recall Taiva in responding the people about the Jewish experiences we always keep our head on, because we never know when we have to leave suddenly, but really it is about saying to the occasion and being aware of God presents.
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