January 3rd, 2008
Kippot Serugot?
Can any of my readers (Jewish or otherwise) explain why kippot serugot (the knitted kippah or yarmulke) are “more religious” than (eg:) a cloth one? Is this just a style adopted the community involved? Or is there a reason for religious people to wear kippot serugot? Or, am I misunderstanding what I’m reading on the web, and it’s not religious at all?
Speaking of which… have you seen the fair trade Mayan kippot? The colours and patterns are Yafeh Me’od!
And for the (WR) clergy folks out there I see a full line of liturgically coloured stoles!
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Avi aka TikkunGer says:
Well slap me silly! I think Yankel gave me one those Fair Trade Jew hats!
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:30 am
Huw says:
It’s that whole LA thing. Y’all are just too PC for me.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:34 am
Avi aka TikkunGer says:
Ummmmm, more like the cheap ass, Jewish thing. Well at least in terms of, how I came to be in possession of one. Yankel, appropriated it at some swanky bar/bat mitzvah (I think Pee Wee Herman aka Paul Rubin was there). I doubt Yankel new jack about the fair trade thing! I sure as heck didn’t until your post!
January 3rd, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Huw says:
LOL. I think the fair trade thing is pretty cool: and they have very nice mezuzah cases!
Still… any clue about why Knitted Kippot are for the conservatively religious?
January 3rd, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Avi aka TikkunGer says:
Sorry, I don’t know.
January 4th, 2008 at 12:33 am
B.BarNavi says:
Depends on what you mean by “religious”. In Israel, the knit kippot are used by “religious” Zionists (yishuvniks), while cloth kippot, as long as they are black, are associated with the ultra-”religious”.
In the US, knit kippot are more “casual”, and those who wear kippot casually on a day-to-day basis tend to be more “religious”, is all.
I myself prefer leather/suede.
January 10th, 2008 at 2:51 am
Huw says:
B.BarNavi - thanks for the info. You provided enough to “fill in the gaps”. I had assumed the knitted ones were more casual as well.
Thanks.
January 10th, 2008 at 3:02 am