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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: angryChineseKahanist on September 03, 2008, 05:09:10 PM
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Where do you Jews go to get your yarmulkes? I don't see any around.
You can get them online, but where have you been getting them all this time?
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Where do you Jews go to get your yarmulkes? I don't see any around.
You can get them online, but where have you been getting them all this time?
Relatives from Israel (the best ones are their).
If you cant do that, go to main Street. Go to the Jewish bookstores. They have them.
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Where do you Jews go to get your yarmulkes? I don't see any around.
You can get them online, but where have you been getting them all this time?
Shalom,
I have bought most of my nice Kippahs at a Jewish bookstore in Berkeley called Afikomen. They have a great selection of Kippahs. I have my black knit kippah for some occasions and a blue and black knit kippah for more festive times.
muman613
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just walk into a synogogue and take one... O0 :::D
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i'm pretty sure you can try the internet if all else fails...
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I have a stack of them. the best place is:
The Kippa Man at 37 Jaffa Road off of Beni Yuda. If you don't have time to go to Jerusalem just for a Kippa, he has a WEB site: www.kippaman.com
He is a great guy and he has literally thousands of different kinds. A lot of them he makes himself, so if there is certain color, material or pattern he can fix you up.
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just walk into a synogogue and take one... O0 :::D
Which synagogue exactly was that? ??? I think I should have a conversation with security. :::D
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just walk into a synogogue and take one... O0 :::D
Right!
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just walk into a synogogue and take one... O0 :::D
Right!
As long as it's a reform shul... Go ahead, they dont think stealing is a sin, because they don't believe in mitzvah...
muman613
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just walk into a synogogue and take one... O0 :::D
Dr. Dan, that was funny, nice to see a great sense of humor O0
Shalom from Dox
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just walk into a synogogue and take one... O0 :::D
Right!
As long as it's a reform shul... Go ahead, they dont think stealing is a sin, because they don't believe in mitzvah...
muman613
reform shuls don't have kipas...lol
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I almost believed DrDan! For a moment there I thought they give them out for free.
On Amazon for example, they sell them for about five dollars, then charge $8 for shipping!
And some of these stores are in Brooklyn! Sheesh!
I'll try the bookstore. I'm sure I'll get some stares! ...hmmm he doesn't look Jewish...
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In Israel there are plenty of Kippah stands in malls, central bus/rail stations etc. And also on the markets and the streets. There you can find variety and also buy them on the cheap.
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In Israel there are plenty of Kippah stands in malls, central bus/rail stations etc. And also on the markets and the streets. There you can find variety and also buy them on the cheap.
I posted a great spot of vendor in Israel. He is a really good guy.
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I have a stack of them. the best place is:
The Kippa Man at 37 Jaffa Road off of Beni Yuda. If you don't have time to go to Jerusalem just for a Kippa, he has a WEB site: www.kippaman.com
He is a great guy and he has literally thousands of different kinds. A lot of them he makes himself, so if there is certain color, material or pattern he can fix you up.
I am so getting this smurf one
(http://www.kippaman.com/eng/uploadimages/180/25281.JPG)
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Oh my smurfness!
I wonder how much it would be to ship it from Israel to the US?
Great website. I think I'll have him nit one with a picture of me.
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Doesn't look like if the website is complete. I get some blank pages under contact and about.
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Oh my smurfness!
I wonder how much it would be to ship it from Israel to the US?
Great website. I think I'll have him nit one with a picture of me.
How about a nit piucture of your Abo avatar ?
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I almost believed DrDan! For a moment there I thought they give them out for free.
On Amazon for example, they sell them for about five dollars, then charge $8 for shipping!
And some of these stores are in Brooklyn! Sheesh!
I'll try the bookstore. I'm sure I'll get some stares! ...hmmm he doesn't look Jewish...
No you can walk into a conservative shul and there are piles of kipas sitting around..no need to order any if you only need one.
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I almost believed DrDan! For a moment there I thought they give them out for free.
On Amazon for example, they sell them for about five dollars, then charge $8 for shipping!
And some of these stores are in Brooklyn! Sheesh!
I'll try the bookstore. I'm sure I'll get some stares! ...hmmm he doesn't look Jewish...
No you can walk into a conservative shul and there are piles of kipas sitting around..no need to order any if you only need one.
They also hand them in Jewish weddings.
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Where do you Jews go to get your yarmulkes? I don't see any around.
You can get them online, but where have you been getting them all this time?
It seems you are not a Jew... if you're not Jewish you should not get a Kippah. A non-Jew may wear a Kippah in case he is invited to synagogue for the wedding of a Jewish friend, or something like that.... but it's wrong for him to wear it otherwise. Unlike Holy items (Mezuah, Tefilim, Talit, etc.) Kippot have no holy meaning and theoretically it's not a prophanity that someone else wears them. But it's forbidden to everyone to do anything that could lead others to take him for a Jew by mistake. The reason is that you are not under Jewish Law, and so you don't have to keep the precepts. If someone sees you in a Kippah and you are doing something forbidden to Jews (eating in a non-kosher restaurant, driving on Shabbat, .....), he may think that you are a Jew who violates the Law, and that would be a prophanity.
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I keep mine in a display case and the only time I have worn one of them is when I go to Israel and visit the Wall.
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Shalom,
I wear kippah and tzittzits every day. When I wake up I say my blessings and daven for 20 minutes before leaving for work. I wear my kippah to work, under my baseball cap, and if I have to I tuck my tzittzits in my pants. I have no problem with my outward Jewish appearance. I also wear long peyos so there is no doubt as to who I associate with.
muman613
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Shalom,
I wear kippah and tzittzits every day. When I wake up I say my blessings and daven for 20 minutes before leaving for work. I wear my kippah to work, under my baseball cap, and if I have to I tuck my tzittzits in my pants. I have no problem with my outward Jewish appearance. I also wear long peyos so there is no doubt as to who I associate with.
muman613
Question for you I had a guy I worked with who wore one when ever he would go to pick something up and it fell from is head he would pick it up and kiss it and put it back on what is the point of kissing it? Do you do that?
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Shalom,
I wear kippah and tzittzits every day. When I wake up I say my blessings and daven for 20 minutes before leaving for work. I wear my kippah to work, under my baseball cap, and if I have to I tuck my tzittzits in my pants. I have no problem with my outward Jewish appearance. I also wear long peyos so there is no doubt as to who I associate with.
muman613
Question for you I had a guy I worked with who wore one when ever he would go to pick something up and it fell from is head he would pick it up and kiss it and put it back on what is the point of kissing it? Do you do that?
Yes,
It is a custom to kiss a item which is dear and close and part of our ritual. Similarly if a Sefer {Book} falls to the ground, when we pick it up we kiss it. Another kissing ritual involves when entering or leaving a house, a more devout person will kiss his hand and touch the mezzuzah on the door post.
muman613
PS: It is also custom to kiss our tzittzits when we recite Shema {During the portion which discusses the mitzvah of Tzittzits}. Also when they take a Torah sefer out from the ark and carry it around the room we kiss the sefer Torah, or a Siddur and touch the Sefer Torah, or our tzittzits which we touch the Torah.
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Shalom,
I wear kippah and tzittzits every day. When I wake up I say my blessings and daven for 20 minutes before leaving for work. I wear my kippah to work, under my baseball cap, and if I have to I tuck my tzittzits in my pants. I have no problem with my outward Jewish appearance. I also wear long peyos so there is no doubt as to who I associate with.
muman613
Question for you I had a guy I worked with who wore one when ever he would go to pick something up and it fell from is head he would pick it up and kiss it and put it back on what is the point of kissing it? Do you do that?
Yes,
It is a custom to kiss a item which is dear and close and part of our ritual. Similarly if a Sefer {Book} falls to the ground, when we pick it up we kiss it. Another kissing ritual involves when entering or leaving a house, a more devout person will kiss his hand and touch the mezzuzah on the door post.
muman613
Thank you for the answer :)
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AmericanHero,
I believe it is because we love our rituals which connect us with Hashem. He has given us physical mitzvahs in this world in order to connect to him.
muman613
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My friend got his in temple.
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My friend got his in temple.
Obviously, PJC, you are not up to speed on all the posts. There is only one Temple. Shul is the proper name.
If I can stay on this forum long enough I might just get smart.
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My friend got his in temple.
Obviously, PJC, you are not up to speed on all the posts. There is only one Temple. Shul is the proper name.
If I can stay on this forum long enough I might just get smart.
(http://channelxml.com/images/The-Simpsons-Mr-Burns-Excel.jpg)
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Actually some people kiss their kippa. But I think that most (at least I dont) dont kiss it, and their is no problem even if one plays frisbie with it (I remember doing that in high school). A mezuza or a Torah book is completly different- they are in themselves Holy. A kippa is basically a way to cover one's head. It is no different then a cap, a turban or even a napkin as long as it is on your head. Also their is no problem in throwing a torn or dirty (for whatever reason) kippa that you dont need anymore, one does not have to bury it, as would be the case with a damaged mezuza for example.
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Actually some people kiss their kippa. But I think that most (at least I dont) dont kiss it, and their is no problem even if one plays frisbie with it (I remember doing that in high school). A mezuza or a Torah book is completly different- they are in themselves Holy. A kippa is basically a way to cover one's head. It is no different then a cap, a turban or even a napkin as long as it is on your head. Also their is no problem in throwing a torn or dirty (for whatever reason) kippa that you dont need anymore, one does not have to bury it, as would be the case with a damaged mezuza for example.
What is a mezuza ?
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Actually some people kiss their kippa. But I think that most (at least I dont) dont kiss it, and their is no problem even if one plays frisbie with it (I remember doing that in high school). A mezuza or a Torah book is completly different- they are in themselves Holy. A kippa is basically a way to cover one's head. It is no different then a cap, a turban or even a napkin as long as it is on your head. Also their is no problem in throwing a torn or dirty (for whatever reason) kippa that you dont need anymore, one does not have to bury it, as would be the case with a damaged mezuza for example.
What is a mezuza ?
(http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc43/sarahegrosman/flat/IMG_0608.jpg)
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Actually some people kiss their kippa. But I think that most (at least I dont) dont kiss it, and their is no problem even if one plays frisbie with it (I remember doing that in high school). A mezuza or a Torah book is completly different- they are in themselves Holy. A kippa is basically a way to cover one's head. It is no different then a cap, a turban or even a napkin as long as it is on your head. Also their is no problem in throwing a torn or dirty (for whatever reason) kippa that you dont need anymore, one does not have to bury it, as would be the case with a damaged mezuza for example.
What is a mezuza ?
(http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc43/sarahegrosman/flat/IMG_0608.jpg)
That what that is a woman in my building has that up
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I have one on my house and on my office. It has a prayer in it and the symbol for God's name on the outside. Some of them are absolutely gorgeous and are works of art.
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Actually some people kiss their kippa. But I think that most (at least I dont) dont kiss it, and their is no problem even if one plays frisbie with it (I remember doing that in high school). A mezuza or a Torah book is completly different- they are in themselves Holy. A kippa is basically a way to cover one's head. It is no different then a cap, a turban or even a napkin as long as it is on your head. Also their is no problem in throwing a torn or dirty (for whatever reason) kippa that you dont need anymore, one does not have to bury it, as would be the case with a damaged mezuza for example.
What is a mezuza ?
Shalom,
Well, the mezuzzah is a container for a piece of parchment which has scripture written on it. This Mezzuzah box is affixed to the doorpost of the doors in the house. I myself am not fully complying with the mitzvah because I only have a mezzuzah on the front door.
The reason we do this is because it is written in Torah, and we recite it at least 2 times a day in the Shema prayer, that we are to write it {Torah} on the doorposts of the house. I will quote the Torah below. The scripture which is written on the parchment is the actual portion which deals with the commands to love Hashem. The mezzuzah is believed to provide protection from the Ayin Hara and bring Shalom Bayis {Peace in the Home}.
The Torah portion {which we read only 2 weeks ago} is:
PARSHA EIKEV Devarim 11:13-11:21
13. And it will be, if you hearken to My commandments that I command you this day to love the L-rd, your G-d, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14. I will give the rain of your land at its time, the early rain and the latter rain, and you will gather in your grain, your wine, and your oil. 15. And I will give grass in your field for your livestock, and you will eat and be sated. 16. Beware, lest your heart be misled, and you turn away and worship strange gods and prostrate yourselves before them. 17. And the wrath of the L-rd will be kindled against you, and He will close off the heavens, and there will be no rain, and the ground will not give its produce, and you will perish quickly from upon the good land that the L-rd gives you. 18. And you shall set these words of Mine upon your heart and upon your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand and they shall be for ornaments between your eyes. 19. And you shall teach them to your sons to speak with them, when you sit in your house and when you walk on the way and when you lie down and when you rise. 20. And you shall inscribe them upon the doorposts of your house and upon your gates, 21. in order that your days may increase and the days of your children, on the land which the L-rd swore to your forefathers to give them, as the days of heaven above the earth.
I bolded the interesting parts regarding this discussion. You will notice that the command to bind them on our hand and as ornaments between our eyes. This is the mitzvah of Tefillin which requires that we bind 2 boxes with this same scripture onto our arms and on our head. I do Tefillin when I can and need to do it more.
The Shema prayer also has mention of the mitzvah of Tzit-Tzits.This mitzvah is to remind us not to be led astray by the heart {intellectual rebellion} or the eyes {lust}.
37 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 38 'Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them throughout their generations fringes in the corners of their garments, and that they put with the fringe of each corner a thread of blue 39 And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye go not about after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go astray; 40 that ye may remember and do all My commandments, and be holy unto your God. 41 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.'
This is what Mezzuzah is...
muman613
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Actually some people kiss their kippa. But I think that most (at least I dont) dont kiss it, and their is no problem even if one plays frisbie with it (I remember doing that in high school). A mezuza or a Torah book is completly different- they are in themselves Holy. A kippa is basically a way to cover one's head. It is no different then a cap, a turban or even a napkin as long as it is on your head. Also their is no problem in throwing a torn or dirty (for whatever reason) kippa that you dont need anymore, one does not have to bury it, as would be the case with a damaged mezuza for example.
What is a mezuza ?
Shalom,
Well, the mezuzzah is a container for a piece of parchment which has scripture written on it. This Mezzuzah box is affixed to the doorpost of the doors in the house. I myself am not fully complying with the mitzvah because I only have a mezzuzah on the front door.
The reason we do this is because it is written in Torah, and we recite it at least 2 times a day in the Shema prayer, that we are to write it {Torah} on the doorposts of the house. I will quote the Torah below. The scripture which is written on the parchment is the actual portion which deals with the commands to love Hashem. The mezzuzah is believed to provide protection from the Ayin Hara and bring Shalom Bayis {Peace in the Home}.
The Torah portion {which we read only 2 weeks ago} is:
Parasha EIKEV Devarim 11:13-11:21
13. And it will be, if you hearken to My commandments that I command you this day to love the L-rd, your G-d, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14. I will give the rain of your land at its time, the early rain and the latter rain, and you will gather in your grain, your wine, and your oil. 15. And I will give grass in your field for your livestock, and you will eat and be sated. 16. Beware, lest your heart be misled, and you turn away and worship strange gods and prostrate yourselves before them. 17. And the wrath of the L-rd will be kindled against you, and He will close off the heavens, and there will be no rain, and the ground will not give its produce, and you will perish quickly from upon the good land that the L-rd gives you. 18. And you shall set these words of Mine upon your heart and upon your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand and they shall be for ornaments between your eyes. 19. And you shall teach them to your sons to speak with them, when you sit in your house and when you walk on the way and when you lie down and when you rise. 20. And you shall inscribe them upon the doorposts of your house and upon your gates, 21. in order that your days may increase and the days of your children, on the land which the L-rd swore to your forefathers to give them, as the days of heaven above the earth.
I bolded the interesting parts regarding this discussion. You will notice that the command to bind them on our hand and as ornaments between our eyes. This is the mitzvah of Tefillin which requires that we bind 2 boxes with this same scripture onto our arms and on our head. I do Tefillin when I can and need to do it more.
The Shema prayer also has mention of the mitzvah of Tzit-Tzits.This mitzvah is to remind us not to be led astray by the heart {intellectual rebellion} or the eyes {lust}.
37 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 38 'Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them throughout their generations fringes in the corners of their garments, and that they put with the fringe of each corner a thread of blue 39 And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye go not about after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go astray; 40 that ye may remember and do all My commandments, and be holy unto your G-d. 41 I am the LORD your G-d, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your G-d: I am the LORD your G-d.'
This is what Mezzuzah is...
muman613
Thank you :)
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As always, the scholar Muman delivers with style. O0
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As always, the scholar Muman delivers with style. O0
Thank you too you provided a pic :)
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As always, the scholar Muman delivers with style. O0
Thank you for your kind words... I think it is best to understand what we do and why we do it...
muman613
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As always, the scholar Muman delivers with style. O0
Thank you for your kind words... I think it is best to understand what we do and why we do it...
muman613
Wow, if we could always do that, we would certainly be a very advanced people. Certainly much, much closer to God.
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Here is some cute and informative videos I found on youtoob.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tWEmIliMFw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru8x4_dDgts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PACu3aosp1g&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tWEmIliMFw
Thats hilarious!
muman613
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The one hanging by the door is sort of like a horse shoe or a rabbit's foot, I guess.
FYI I'm getting yarmulkes as gifts. Although I have seen oriental Jews.
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Here is some cute and informative videos I found on youtoob.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tWEmIliMFw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru8x4_dDgts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PACu3aosp1g&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tWEmIliMFw
Thats hilarious!
muman613
Now that right thar is funny I don't care who you are. See there you don't have to be Jewish to have a Mezzuza.
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Here is some cute and informative videos I found on youtoob.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tWEmIliMFw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru8x4_dDgts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PACu3aosp1g&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tWEmIliMFw
Thats hilarious!
muman613
Now that right thar is funny I don't care who you are. See there you don't have to be Jewish to have a Mezzuza.
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Kipas came to be because a rabbi saw he had a bald spot and wanted to cover it...and this rabbi was a cool rabbi so everyone else started following his lead...that's why Jews today all wear kipas... :::D
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Kipas came to be because a rabbi saw he had a bald spot and wanted to cover it...and this rabbi was a cool rabbi so everyone else started following his lead...that's why Jews today all wear kipas... :::D
Yeah right ::)
Shabbat Shalom from Dox