Ashkenazi Jewish Ashkenazi Jews ( ; also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim) form a distinct subgroup of the Jewish diaspora, that Ethnogenesis, emerged in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium Common era, CE. They traditionally spe ...

tradition, a kolpik is a type of traditional headgear worn in families of some Chassidic ''

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s'' (Hasidic rabbis) of Galician or Hungarian dynastic descent, by their unmarried children on the Sabbath (

Shabbat Shabbat (, , or ; , , ) or the Sabbath (), also called Shabbos (, ) by Ashkenazi Hebrew, Ashkenazim, is Judaism's day of rest on the seventh day of the seven-day week, week—i.e., Friday prayer, Friday–Saturday. On this day, religious Jews ...

), and by some ''rebbes'' on some special occasions other than Shabbat or major holidays. The kolpik is made from brown fur, as opposed to a ''

spodik A spodik (or spodek; , from Polish ''spodek'' " saucer") is a tall, black fur hat worn by some Hasidic Jews, particularly by members of sects in 19th-century Congress Poland. The origins of the spodik and the shtreimel are unclear, but it is o ...

'', worn by Polish chassidic dynasties, which is fashioned out of black fur. The

shtreimel A shtreimel ( , plural: or ) is a Fur clothing, fur hat worn by some Ashkenazi Jews, Ashkenazi Jewish men, mainly members of Hasidic Judaism, on Shabbat and Jewish holidays and other festive occasions. In Jerusalem, the shtreimel is also worn by ...

, another similar type of fur hat worn by Hasidim, are shorter in height, wider, and disc-shaped, while kolpiks are taller, thinner in bulk, and of cylindrical shape. It is seen as an intermediate level garment between ''Shabbat'' and weekday dress. The days that some ''rebbes'' don a ''kolpik'' include: * ''

Rosh Chodesh In Judaism, Rosh Chodesh or Rosh Hodesh (; trans. ''Beginning of the Month''; lit. ''Head of the Month'') is a minor holiday observed at the beginning of every month in the Hebrew calendar, marked by the birth of a new moon. Rosh Chodesh is obs ...

'' Meal * Hanukah * ''

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'' Meal * '' Isru Chag'' Meal * Meal served to the poor a few days before a child's

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* '' Yartzeit'' Meal It is often thought, that Jews adopted wearing fur hats from the Eastern Europeans, possibly from the nobility. Joseph Margoshes (1866–1955) in his memoir ''A World Apart: A Memoir of Jewish Life in Nineteenth Century Galicia'' writes regarding Rabbi Shimon Sofer's election to the Imperial Council of Austria: File:Belz1.jpg, The third Belzer Rebbe, Yissachar Dov Rokeach, wearing a "kolpik" File:Simon Schreiber.jpg, Rabbi Shimon Sofer wearing a "kolpik" File:כק אדמור מסטיטשין בהכנסת סת חבוש בקאלפיק זקינו בעל המנחת יהודה זצל.jpg, Rabbi From Stitchin wearing his grandfather's kolpik when bringing a Torah scroll into his Beit Midrash in Borough Park

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