How do yarmulkes stay on the head

I guess people who wear them at all times might use clips, but we reform Jews who just wear them in temple don't usually use them, as far as I know.

Even the bald ones. That previous sentence may may well be the only time that all of those words have appeared together in the same place. Response by poster: Thanks for the good answers, now I know. This was one of my questions to an Orthodox Jewish friend of mine, I said "Dude, how do you keep the hat from falling off" and he said "Eh, bobby pins ". It depends on the person and the fashion.

Most people I see in synagogue wear a bobby pin to keep theirs on. During Passover this year, I contemplated making a yarmulke with a suction cup because mine would not stay on my bald head. Back in my hardcore Jewish days when I was also a hardcore rivethead , I dreamed of the idea of getting implants on my head and attaching to them a metal yarmulke.

Anybody else laugh when they saw the username asking the question? Yeah, clips as necessary. Bobby pins or clips, mostly. However, I have seen velcro ones which are supposed to stick to your hair. I haven't seen them work very well. Honestly, though, even without clips they stay on there pretty well. Try this experiment — put a sock on your head and walk around the house for a while. Odds are unless you're seriously racing around, or experiencing extreme indoor weather conditions, the sock will more or less stay put.

Amid all this talk of artificial aids I would like to point out that a kippah is not always a flat piece of cloth. Often it is concave and so does tend to sit naturally on one's head.

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Those who travel kippah-free are requested to don a blue, sharply-creased, circular piece of paper. The precarious kippah is inevitably subjected to the winds off the Vltava and flutters away. Comparably, a non-Jewish man attending a synagogue ceremony such as a marriage or Bar Mitzvah, will usually be requested to wear a kippah. Here, a stiff yet slippery synthetic satin kippah is ubiquitous.

What then is the secret to making a kippah stay on? It is disappointingly simple. Jews who frequently wear a kippah know where to put it on their head the crown and tend to own kippot which have been tried, tested and are a good fit.

This solution is not universally accepted, however, and the hair clip is rejected by staunch traditionalists. If the wearer chooses a suede kippah, bald heads happily have the advantage of a high coefficient of friction. Should all else fail, the ultimate kippah secret is double-sided fashion tape or a dot of one-sided velcro. Please note: stick the velcro to the kippah, not to your head. All any Jew in the world need do is don a hat of any kind.

Covering the head symbolizes respect for the universality of God. Respect the larger meaning of a symbol. Of life. Of slavery. Of freedom. There is also an option called Kippah Klipz.

They are little hidden clips that go under the kippah and secure it to a persons hair. I have some and they are great. My cousins are Jewish and I have always wondered about how they keep a kippah on. However, why exactly would a staunch traditionalist see it as a bad thing to wear it with a clip?

There is no Jewish law that forbids the use of hair clips to secure a kippah. The use of these types of hair clips for kippot are a recent phenomenon — if grandpa and his grandpa wore head coverings out of religious conviction and apparently managed without clips, why start now? They are Jewish.. I actually had a dear Jewish friend, when I called him a Jew he respectfully asked me to refer to him as Jewish.