Gamers keeping Shabbat

[garyh]

Oh the roundish skullcap like things?

Precisely!!

 

[garyh]

Edit : BTW, if no one minds. What exactly is the purpose for those? And do those of the muslim faith also wear something similar?

There's a passage in the Torah saying one should cover their head in while worshiping, I believe. If someone more informed (i.e., NOT a recent convert like myself ) has a better answer, I'd like to hear it, too!

I don't much know about Muslim customs, I'm afraid.

 

[HalWhitewyrm]

There's a passage in the Torah saying one should cover their head in while worshiping, I believe.

Yeah, pretty much. The idea is that you are always in the presence of G-d, so the kippah, by being on your head, reminds you of this (there are other, more complex and theological reasons for this as well, but there is little need to get into that, not to mention I do not know them all). There are a lot of little reminders such as this in Judaism, more or less strictly followed depending on the particular affiliation one follows.

 

[Bagel Golem]

...but were only human afer all.

Really? I'm golem.


Bagel Golem

 

[Bagel Golem]

Oh the roundish skullcap like things?

Edit : BTW, if no one minds. What exactly is the purpose for those? And do those of the muslim faith also wear something similar?

And the Pope for much the same reason as far as I know. I'm not an expert on Catholicism, so I stand to be corrected.

Bagel Golem

 

[mythago]

There's an apocryphical story about the Pope visiting Teddy Kolleck, then mayor of Jerusalem. Supposedly a photo of the two men greeting each other was captioned "The Pope is the one in the kippah."

We both agreed that the thing you miss most during a fast is water.

Oh yeah. Going without food, no problem, but without water? Ouch. At least Yom Kippur is in the fall. I feel really bad for Muslims when Ramadan is in the summer.

 

[LcKedovan]

And do those of the muslim faith also wear something similar?

I'm pretty sure the answer is no. In arab nations they quite often wear the gutra, (different words depending on what region you are in) which is the traditional headress of the desert for purely practical reasons (keeping, sun, wind and sand away). In fact It hink they even remove most headwear during prayer. There is something like a skullcap that you wear underneath your gutra that I think they might keep on, but I don't think it has religious connotations.

-W.

 

[mythago]

I got a letter from OU today saying that they had referred my letter on to a poskim. Still waiting to hear the details, but they should be interesting!

 

[Paladin]

Any news on the d20 kippahs?

Yes. We finally found a pattern that will work. We're finishing up a lot of customer orders tonight, (they were delayed by a very ill monogramming computer) but we will attempt to make a kippah tomorrow and I'll try to get a photo up. After making one, we will be able to determine how much fabric is actually used and give everyone a price.
I'm also waiting on a response from Anthony Valterra (Zulkir) on using the actual d20 System logo on the bags since people have requested that. If WotC says no, then we can still embroider "d20" on the kippah, just not the actual logo. We're not going to mark up the custom monogramming price from the monogrammer (we never do) so we're really just going to [possibly] be offering the logo as a customer service - since y'all asked for it.

 

[mythago]

Yay!

Oh, and I found those trading cards:

<http://torahtots.com/cards/tlnkmain.htm>