Jewish life

kippah

Rabbinic Hebrew for a dome or vault — and a domed cap; Modern Hebrew made it the everyday word for the skullcap, and English took it up in the 1960s alongside the older Yiddish yarmulke.

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500 BCEBiblical Hebrew

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