2007-02-17 06:00:17 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yamulka or kippa. Not one word in Scripture implies that the Children of Israel People had the kippa at the time of Moses or King David or Ezra, or Jeremiah, or Isaiah, or any other Prophet in the Tenach. It has been a Jewish tradition for centuries but it has no biblical basis. It is of pagan origin that came out of babylon, and seems to mainly oginiate from the diaspora in Europe.
2007-02-17 06:02:43 · answer #1 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The ones worn by Jews are called Kipot (singular Kipah) in Hebrew, or Yarmulkes (Yarmulke in singular, prounced "Yamikah" and Yamikas") in Yiddish. The ones that others wear, you have to ask them about.
2007-02-17 14:06:25 · answer #2 · answered by XX 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A yamalkah or a kipah. (Yalmalkah is Yiddish and kipah is Hebrew.) In English, the Jewish skullcap is called, you guessed it, a skullcap.
2007-02-17 14:03:07 · answer #3 · answered by x 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
When I cover my head for particular occasions--for public Jewish worship or private prayer, for study of Torah--I am following what has become a distinctive Jewish way of performing a ritual act, of showing reverence, of acknowledging that I stand in the presence of the Holy One.
covering the head is meaningful in another way: not with regard to the particular act that I am doing, or to the particular moment when I am doing it, but with regard to who I am. For going about with covered head--especially with kippah-covered head--means that I am wearing a uniform, and thus will be immediately identified: to non-Jews, as a Jew; to Jews, as fellow Jew. When I wear a kippah in public, therefore, I demonstrate my willingness, perhaps even my eagerness, to be so identified.
2007-02-17 14:21:46 · answer #4 · answered by Furibundus 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yarmulke is Yiddish for 'small, round headgear'.
Kippah (plural, kippot) is the Hebrew equivelant.
2007-02-17 14:05:25 · answer #5 · answered by Nowhere Man 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yamulke or kippah depending on who you are asking as both names mean the same.. its worn so as to keep the top of the head covered before god, whereas orthodox jewish females often wear wigs to cover their hair so as not to tempt males
2007-02-17 14:11:51 · answer #6 · answered by little helper 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is called one of two things.. yarmulke or kippah
2007-02-17 14:04:17 · answer #7 · answered by Kallan 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
skull cap, that's rich.
2007-02-17 14:08:41 · answer #8 · answered by Julian 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yamaka, or however you spell it.
2007-02-17 14:04:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
KIPPOT
2007-02-17 14:34:44 · answer #10 · answered by dustin j 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋