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In the 21st century, some non-Orthodox Jewish women began covering their heads or hair with scarves, kippot, or headbands. [30] Reasons given for doing so included as an act of spiritual devotion, [ 31 ] as expression of ethnic identity, as an act of resistance to a culture that normalizes the exposure of the body, [ 32 ] or as a feminist ...
Woman of the Haredi burqa sect in Mea Shearim, a Jewish neighbourhood in Jerusalem, 2012 The " Haredi burqa sect " ( Hebrew : נשות השָאלִים Neshót haShalím , lit. ' shawl-wearing women ' ) is a community of Haredi Jews that ordains the full covering of a woman's entire body and face, including her eyes, for the preservation of ...
Judaism, under Halakhah (Jewish Law), promotes modest dress among women and men. Many married Orthodox Jewish women wear a headscarf (mitpahat or tichel), snood, turban, shpitzel or a wig to cover their hair. The Tallit is commonly worn by Jewish men, especially for prayers, which they use to cover their heads in order to recite the blessings ...
In Numbers 5:18, the sotah (meaning "one who goes astray") ritual, in which the head of a woman accused of adultery is uncovered (made parua), is explicated, implying that normally a woman's head is covered; the Talmud thus teaches that the Torah (Pentateuch) commands women to go out in public with their heads covered.
Being Yiddish, the meaning can change by the use of gestures and a change in tone, so that tsatskele can become the favorite child. Leo Rosten, author of The Joys of Yiddish, combines the two main meanings and gives an alternative sense of tchotchke as meaning a young girl, a "pretty young thing".
The tallit katan (Yiddish/Ashkenazic Hebrew tales kotn; "small tallit") is a fringed garment traditionally worn either under or over one's clothing by Jewish males. It is a poncho-like garment with a hole for the head and special twined and knotted fringes known as tzitzit attached to its four corners.
It is mentioned in various ancient and medieval Jewish and Christian religious texts in Aramaic and Koine Greek, written in or around the Near East. Among them are the New Testament , the Targum Neofiti , the Peshitta , the Babylonian Talmud (this text makes numerous mentions of the sudra and is an important source for the role it played in ...
Yiddish Used as a greeting for the holidays. [2] Often spelled Gut Yontif or Gut Yontiff in English transliteration. Gut'n Mo'ed: גוטן מועד: Good ḥol hamoed [ˈɡutn̩ ˈmɔjɛd] Yiddish As above (as a greeting during the chol ha-moed (intermediate days) of the Passover and Sukkot holidays), but Yiddish/English L'shanah tovah or Shana ...