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Hasidic men in Borough Park, Brooklyn. The man on the left is wearing a shtreimel and a tallit, and the other man traditional Hasidic garb: long suit, black hat, and gartel. Jewish religious clothing is apparel worn by Jews in connection with the practice of the Jewish religion.
The legal duty of laying tefillin rests solely upon Jewish males above the age of thirteen years, women are exempt from this obligation. [12] Though no such prohibition existed in ancient times, [12] since at least the Rema in the 16th century, [55] the prevalent practice among religious Jews has strongly discouraged women from wearing tefillin.
Some Ashkenazi Jewish men wear a frock coat during prayer and other specific occasions. It is commonly worn by Hasidic rabbis and Jewish religious leaders in public. The coat is more commonly known as a frak, a sirtuk, or a kapotteh. Bekishe coats or robes are worn by Hasidic lay men on Sabbath and holidays, both single and married.
In some communities, the hazzan wears a kittel on the first night of Selichot, on Hoshana Rabbah or the seventh day of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, the musaf prayers of Shemini Atzeret and the first day of Passover, where the Geshem (prayers for rain or dew) are recited. In some communities, a bridegroom wears a kittel on his wedding day. [5]
Shtreimel on a mannequin. A shtreimel (Yiddish: שטרײַמל shtrayml, plural: שטרײַמלעך shtraymlekh or שטרײַמלען shtraymlen) is a fur hat worn by some Ashkenazi Jewish men, mainly members of Hasidic Judaism, on Shabbat and Jewish holidays and other festive occasions. [1]
Jewish men wear the talit katan every day, most commonly worn under their clothing with the tzitzit knots hanging out. Some Jewish men prefer to tuck in their tzitzit to avoid drawing unwanted attention and/or for practical reasons. The tallit gadol became almost exclusively worn only for morning prayers and rarely outside.
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