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Popular videos. Jew in the City Presents “The Sound of Silence” feat. The Maccabeats. In a world obsessed with devices, it occurred to me that we are living in an age where silence dominates many situations. Silence between couples, silence between families, silence everywhere you turn as people tap, tap, tap on their devices.
Hats and Yarmulkes: A Visual Guide To Orthodox Jewish Men's …
Black Velvet Yarmulke. This common head covering can range from the creative (painted or embroidered as seen on young children), oversize (as seen on rabbis and Hasidic men) and others. A standard in the Haredi community, they are also worn by some Modern Orthodox and Centrist Orthodox Jews. (Suede Yarmulkes are also common among Modern and ...
What’s the Difference Between Hasidic vs. Orthodox Jews?
The Baal Shem Tov died in 1760 but his teachings became the basis of the Hasidic movement. In the Hasidic movement, greater emphasis is placed on the spiritual, as opposed to traditional Orthodoxy, in which greater emphasis is placed on the intellectual. If there’s a conflict between halacha (Jewish law) and kabbalah (Jewish mystical beliefs ...
Why Do Orthodox Jewish Women Shave Their Heads?
Jul 25, 2020 · To say that Orthodox Jewish women shave their heads is a huge generalization, and not a particularly accurate one. What the majority of Orthodox women do is cover their hair. The parameters of the laws of tzniyus (modesty) are not explicit in the Torah. They are part of the Torah she’b’al peh – our oral tradition, which was communicated ...
What Happens When Yom Kippur Coincides With Shabbos?
The reason for this is because the Torah calls Yom Kippur “the Sabbath of Sabbaths” (Leviticus 16:31). While fasts that fall on Shabbos are normally postponed, Yom Kippur is a kind of super-Shabbos, so we fast even when it falls on Saturday. But Yom Kippur is not very different because it’s already a day with full Shabbos rules in effect.
Why Do Orthodox Jewish Men Wear Big Fur Hats? - Jew in the City
Aug 29, 2022 · Sure, some Orthodox Jews wear big fur hats, but most don’t. The practice is limited to most Hasidic sects, plus to the Yerushalmis (a non-Hasidic Ashkenazi community in Jerusalem). The fur hat in question is known by its Yiddish name, “shtreimel.”. The shtreimel was adopted by Eastern European Jewish communities in the 18th century ...
Sheitels, Snoods, Tichels And Shpitzels: A Visual Guide To …
Oct 21, 2020 · While Orthodox Jewish male headcoverings are pretty easy to spot, married Orthodox Jewish women’s head coverings range from more to less subtle, depending on the style choice and community the woman comes from. Well-done wigs, hats, and falls might not even be spottable, whereas snoods and turbans stand out from a mile away.The meaning behind the covering is significant, no matter how the ...
Why Do Orthodox Jewish Men Have Sidecurls? - Jew in the City
Jun 4, 2018 · Hey JITC-Why do Orthodox Jewish men have sidecurls? Thanks, Ivan. Dear Ivan-Thanks for your question. Those sidecurls are called “peiyot” in Hebrew, meaning corners. This is commonly Yiddishized as “peiyes” and is usually rendered in English in a variety of less-phonetically-accurate spellings, including “payes” and “peyot.” (By the way, the common English-language term is ...
Miami Boys Choir Member David Herskowitz Chats About Viral …
Apr 19, 2023 · Miami Boys Choir’s arrangement of Yerushalayim (from Miami Moshiach, 2007) took TikTok by a storm these past few weeks. The one-minute video clip of a live performance features four Miami soloists: Yoshi Bender, Akiva Abromowitz, David Herskowitz, and Binyomin Abramowitz. The video has over 7.5 million views, has been “dueted” thousands ...
He Who Saves Just One Life Saves The World Entire
In Judaism, life is the most holy thing that exists; the Talmud teaches, “He who saves a single life, saves the world entire.”. Twenty-five years ago, an Orthodox Jewish man named Jack Forgash read a statistic in the newspaper that troubled him: one in eleven pregnancies in Israel were ending in abortion. He wondered if any of the women who ...