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Ephod
Ephod (Hebrew אֵפֹד, ephod): ancient Israelite priestly vestment, a close-fitting armless garment worn by the high priest and ordinary priests, also denoting a cultic image or divinatory object linked to the Urim and Thummim.
Jewish hat
The Jewish hat (Judenhut, pileus cornutus) was the pointed cone headdress of medieval European Jewish men, at first worn voluntarily as a Jewish symbol, then legally imposed in German-speaking lands from about 1250 to 1750 after the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215, before declining by 1500 in favor of the yellow badge.
Jewish religious clothing
Jewish religious clothing: tzitzit and tallit, kippah, tzniut modest dress, and married women's hair covering, plus Shabbat and holiday garments, shatnez law, and Hasidic dress adapted from Eastern European fashion.
Kippah (כִּפָּה)
Kippah (כִּפָּה), also yarmulke: small round skullcap worn by Jewish men and some women during prayer or always; Hebrew term, Yiddish name; custom turned obligatory; styles signal affiliation.
Payot (פאות)
Payot (פאות, pe'ot, payos) are Jewish sidelocks from the Torah's ban on rounding the corners of the head (Leviticus 19:27); long curled locks are a Hasidic and Yemenite custom, not a biblical requirement.
Priestly breastplate
Priestly breastplate (choshen, חֹשֶׁן; choshen mishpat), one of the eight garments of the Israelite high priest: a folded square pouch of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and linen bearing twelve tribal stones and the Urim and Thummim.
Red string (Kabbalah)
The red string of Kabbalah, or Kabbalah bracelet, is a red wool cord tied on the left wrist as a Jewish folk charm against the evil eye, traditionally wound around Rachel's Tomb near Bethlehem.
Shtreimel
Shtreimel (Yiddish שטרײַמל, shtrayml): wide donut-shaped fur hat worn by married Hasidic men on Shabbat and holidays; thirteen fur skins symbolize the thirteen attributes of mercy; distinct from the taller black spodik of Gur and the brown kolpik; costs up to 25,000+ shekels.
Tallit (טַלִּית)
Tallit (טַלִּית), plural tallitot, is the Jewish four-cornered prayer shawl with tzitzit fringes worn mainly at morning services; Ashkenazi versions have black stripes, Sephardi ones are white, and its blue stripes inspired the flag of Israel.
Tefillin (תפילין)
Tefillin (תפילין), phylacteries: black leather boxes with Torah parchment scrolls worn on head and arm during weekday morning prayers; Rashi and Rabbeinu Tam passage-ordering traditions; earliest examples from the Judean Desert Dead Sea Scrolls.
Tzitzit (ציצית)
Tzitzit (ציצית), also tsitsiyot or tzitzis, are the ritually tied corner fringes commanded in Numbers 15 and Deuteronomy 22, worn on the tallit gadol prayer shawl and the tallit katan undergarment, with 8 strings, 5 knots, and 39 windings per corner.
Yellow badge
Yellow badge (Judenstern, Jewish badge, yellow star): cloth mark ordered onto Jews' clothing, from 8th-century Muslim caliphs through the 1215 Fourth Lateran Council to the Nazi-era Star of David decree of September 1, 1941.