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The kippa is one of Judaism's most sacred items. A man can not go into a synagogue
to worship God without one. Many believers, both Jewish and Gentile, wear the
kippa to identify with the Jewish People. This is why I wore one for 27 years.
It was more of a need on my part, because I saw it as what religious Jews were
supposed to look like, and it is what we are taught in the Yashiva's. But I
was compelled to investigate the history to see its pagan origin and symbolism,
and I removed it. Many colleagues have done the same.
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There is no problem with the woman's head covering for modesty and submission to authority, or a man wearing a hat, etc., but the kippa is different. It is a religious symbol in and of itself. And what it symbolizes,then YOU WILL COME TO SEE as I did, the sun, the sun god, and his followers. The sun god is none other than Satan himself.1 We have no place with them even if it means 'separating' from what our People think and do. For they are to follow us, not us them. We are to walk in His Torah Truth. We who care, should realize, some Traditions should not be followed just because our fathers followed them, IN FACT GET SUSPICIOUS WHEN SOMETHING IS ENFORCED ONTO US WITHOUT SUPPORT FROM THE TENACH.
This
is the quote from : http://www.chabad.org/ (1)
One should not walk bare-headed (the distance of) four cubits1. - (2)
Nowadays there is an additional prohibition, not only to walk a short
distance, but even to sit in the house bare-headed . - (3)
It should be even worn during sleep at night . - (4)
Small children should also be raised to cover their heads 4. - -
- symbolizes our humility and sense of shame in
the presence of G-d . Does
the Pope and his preists also feel shame in their pagan idolatry attire.
"One needs to
ask "why do we as Jews need to be ashamed, or
feel shame when seeking our Creator God Yahweh.?"
Not one word in Scripture implies that the Children of Israel People
had the kippa at the time of Moses or King David or Ezra, or Jeremiah,
or Isaiah, or any other Prophet in the Tenach. It has been a Jewish tradition
for centuries but it has no biblical basis why?, And it is of pagan origin
that came out of babylon, and seems to mainly oginiate from the diaspora
in Europe. If one says that the kippa is like the bonnet (KJV: Exodus
39:28, etc.), or the hat that Yahveh gave to the priests, I would ask
for a reference that describes the bonnet to be a kippa.
"Why do you do what you do? What biblical basis do you have? For if you do not have a Torah basis then you are walking in a tradition. It is very important to understand where the tradition comes from." Don't just do it because everyone else is!
The Kippa of the Sun God
Lets not suggest that it is offensive to God to wear a hat or turban for a man,
or a head covering or hat for a woman. Our concern should be "is that the
kippa is not a hat in the proper term of the word but
has religious symbolism. What does it mean?, What
did it
symbolize in ancient times, ?
The roundness of it suggests the sun. There are places in Scripture where the
Yahveh tells us not to shave our heads in the form of a circle (because this
is originally what all the priests of Baal, Bacchus, Tamuz, Apollo, Zeus Jupiter,
Dagon, etc. did), to signify their allegiance to the sun god.
The kippa represents the circle or nimbus of light that encircles the Catholic
pictures of 'their Christ' and 'Mary' and 'Joseph' and all the other 'saints'.
This circle of light that radiants from their head is supposed to suggest their
deity or godness. But in actuality they were taken from the pictures and statues
of the 'gods and goddess' of Babylon.2 "Believe
it or not"
Pagan worship
was rampant in the ancient world. From Ireland to Egypt, to Assyria to India,
and unto China and Mexico, the idolatrous pagan traditions were the same through-out
the world. The names of the gods and goddess' changing, but the rituals remaining
the same or similar. It all emanated from Bavel (Babylon).
However, realize from the Common Era, that the people lived in small villages,
and the only form of education came mainly from the Friars, Monks, and Priest
of the Catholic Church, but many were illiterate. It was an easy task to delude
the entire world.
'The disk and particularly the circle were the well known symbols of the Sun-divinity,
and figured largely in the symbolism of the East. With the circle or the disk,
the head of the Sun divinity was encompassed. The same was the case in Pagan
Rome'3 (Roman Empire before the Catholic Church
conquered it). Hislop goes on to say that the nimbus was the same for the Roman
Madonna (Virgin Mary). The kipa is the physical representation of the nimbus
or disk or circle.
Leviticus 19:27 reads: 'You shall not shave around the sides of your head, nor
harm the edges of your beard.'4 (NKJV) It is this
rounded head that the ancient pagans, and many Catholic clerics to this day,
wear as a symbol of identification with the god of the sun. Where did the Pope
and his Cardinals get their kipot (kipa's), from? Some say they took it from
the Jews. But the Catholics had it long before we did.
The dictionary states that a tonsure (the head shaved in the form of a circle),
means 'to shear'. 'The Roman Catholic or Eastern
rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion
of the head', 'the shaven crown or patch worn by monks and other clerics', 'a
bald spot resembling a tonsure'.5 'to shave
the head', especially to confer some kind of clerical authority. This is the
identical custom of the pagan religions.
Alexander Hislop writes:
'These celibate priests, Monks, Friars, have all a certain mark set upon them
at their ordination; and that is the clerical tonsure. The tonsure is the first
part of the ceremony of ordination; and it is held to be a most important element
in connection with the orders of the Romish clergy.
When, after long contendings, the Picts were at last brought to submit to the
Bishop of Rome, the acceptance of this tonsure as the tonsure of St. Peter on
the part of the clergy was the visible symbol of that submission. Naitan, the
Pictish king, having assembled the nobles of his court and the pastors of his
church, thus addressed them: "I recommend all the clergy of my kingdom
to receive the tonsure."
Then, without delay, as Bede informs us, this important revolution was accomplished
by royal authority. He sent agents into every province, and caused all the ministers
and monks to receive the circular tonsure, according to the Roman fashion, and
thus to submit to Peter, "the most blessed Prince of the apostles."
"It was the mark," says Merle D'Aubigne, "that Popes stamped
not on the forehead, but on the crown. A royal proclamation, and a few clips
of the scissors, placed the Scotch, like a flock of sheep, beneath the crook
of the shepherd of the Tiber."
Now, as Rome set so much importance on this tonsure, let it be asked what was
the meaning of it? It was the visible inauguration of those who submitted to
it as the priests of Bacchus. This tonsure cannot have the slightest pretence
to BIBLICAL authority., but of the Chaldean "Peter" of the Mysteries.
He was a tonsured priest, for so was the god whose Mysteries he revealed.
Centuries before the Common era, thus spoke Herodotus of the Babylonian tonsure:
"The Arabians acknowledge no other
gods than Bacchus and Urania (i.e. the Queen of Heaven), and they say that
their hair was cut in the same manner as Bacchus's is cut; now, they cut it
in a circular form, shaving it around the temples."
What, then, could have led to this tonsure of Bacchus? Everything in his history
was mystically or hieroglyphically represented, and that in such a way as none
but the initiated could understand. One of the things that occupied the most
important place in the Mysteries was the mutilation to which he was subjected
when he was put to death.
In memory of that, he was lamented with bitter weeping every year, as 'Rosh-Gheza,'
'the mutilated Prince.' But 'Rosh-Gheza' also signified the 'clipped or shaved
head.' Therefore he was himself represented either with the one or the other
form of tonsure; and his priests, for the same reason, at their ordination had
their heads either clipped or shaven.
Over all the world, where the traces of the Chaldean system are found, this
tonsure or shaving of the head is always found along with it.
The priests of Osiris, the Egyptian Bacchus, were always distinguished by
the shaving of their heads. In Pagan Rome, in India, and even in China, the
distinguishing mark of the Babylonian priesthood was the shaven head. Thus Gautama
Buddha, who lived at least 540 years before Common Era, when setting up the
sect of Buddhism in India which spread to the remotest regions of the East,
first shaved his own head, in obedience, as he pretended, to a Divine command,
and then set to work to get others to imitate his example.
One of the very titles by which he was called was that of the "Shaved-head."
"The shaved-head," says one of the Purans, "that he might perform
the orders of Vishnu, formed a number of disciples, and of shaved-heads like
himself."
The high antiquity of this tonsure may be seen from the enactment in the Mosaic
law against it.
which sufficiently
shows that , even so early as the time of Moses, the "shaved-head"
had been already introduced and was the fashion of all pagan religions. We
were expressly instructed NOT TO SHAVE OUR HEADS. However, did our Sages take
this too far, and placed kippas on our heads in case we were bald., and we could
have mistakenly been seen to emulate the pagans, or have we adopted the pagan
practice.
In the Church of Rome the heads of the ordinary priests are only clipped, the
heads of the monks or regular clergy are shaven, but both alike, at their consecration,
receive the circular tonsure, thereby identifying them, beyond all possibility
of doubt, with Bacchus, "the mutilated Prince."
Now, if the priests of Rome take away the key of knowledge, and lock up the
Bible from the people; if they are ordained to offer the Chaldean sacrifice
in honour of the Pagan Queen of Heaven; if they are bound by the Chaldean law
of celibacy, that plunges them in profligacy; if, in short, they are all marked
at their consecration with the distinguishing mark of the priests of the Chaldean
Bacchus, what right, what possible right can
they have to be called ministers of Christ?” Unless
they represent the Pagan Idol of which the person of Christ took over as replacing
the ancient gods and reappearing as Christ in the present day religions,
with the Queens of Heaven emerging as "MARY">
In a footnote to "the mutilated Prince" (above) Hislop writes this:
'It has been already shown (p. 18, Note) that among the Chaldeans the one term
'Zero' signified at once 'a circle' and 'the seed.' 'Suro,' 'the seed,' in India,
as we have seen, was the sun-divinity incarnate. When that seed was represented
in human form, to identify him with the sun, he was represented with the circle,
the well-known emblem of the sun's annual course, on some part of his person.
Thus our own god Thor was represented with a blazing circle on his breast. -
(WILSON'S Parsi Religion, p. 31.) In Persia and Assyria the circle was represented
sometimes on the breast, sometimes round the waist, and sometimes in the hand
of the sun-divinity. - (BRYANT, vol. ii., Plates, pp. 216, 406, 409; and LAYARD'S
Nineveh and Babylon, p. 160.) In India it is represented at the tip of the finger.
- MOOR'S Pantheon, Plate 13, 'Vishnu.'
Hence the circle became the emblem of Tammuz born again, or 'the seed.' The
circular tonsure of Bacchus was doubtless intended to point him out as 'Zero,'
or 'the seed,' the grand deliverer. And the circle of light around the head
of the so-called pictures of Christ was evidently just a different form of the
very same thing, and borrowed from the very same source. In other words, the
Christ of the Christian religions, is the Tammuz, or the Zeus of the Pagan religions
the Sun God or Satan himself. The ceremony of tonsure, says Maurice, referring
to the practice of that ceremony in India, 'was an old practice of the priests
of Mithra, who in their tonsures imitated the solar disk.' - (Antiquities, vol.
vii. p. 851. London, 1800.)
As the sun-god was the great lamented god, and had his hair cut in a circular
form, and the priests who lamented him had their hair cut in a similar manner,
so in different countries those who lamented the dead and cut off their hair7
in honour of them, cut it in a circular form.
There were traces of that in Greece, as appears from the Electra of Sophocles
(line 52, pp. 108, 109); and Herodotus particularly refers to it as practised
among the Scythians when giving an account of a royal funeral among that people.
"The body", says he, "is enclosed in wax. They then place it
on a carriage, and remove it to another district, where the persons who receive
it, like the Royal Scythians, cut off a part of their ear, shave their heads
in a circular form," &c. - (Hist., lib. iv. cap. 71, p. 279.)"
Now, while the Pope, as the grand representative of the false Messiah, Christ,
received the circular tonsure himself, so all his priests to identify them with
the same system are required to submit to the same circular tonsure, to mark
them in their measure and their own sphere as representatives of that same false
Messiah Christ.'8
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I am not
talking about wearing a hat or head covering for a woman, or a hat for a man,
but specifically the kipa. The kippa is not a hat or a bonnet or a cap. It is
a religious symbol of the sun god. And we Jews for whatever reason, may not
have intentionally copied it, I don't know, but it is not for me to wear.
Is the bonnet or cap that Yahveh gave to Aaron and his sons, equal to the kipa?
Where is this described? Not pictured by an artist who was not there, as we
sometimes see as illustrations in books that talk about biblical things, but
some reference that tells us exactly how the bonnet was shaped. For I cannot
see how the God of Israel would forbid His People on the one hand, from shaving
their heads or cutting their hair in a circle, and then order the priests to
look like the pagan priests and people (mourning for the dead), around them.
Some identification marks of God's People are the full untrimmed beard (Lev.
19:27), and the tzit-ziot (Num. 15:37-41). These signify who we are and whose
we are, the God of Israel's.
I hope that you are able to begin to question why you wear the kippa, and if
it is sufficient for you to continue to wear it. Perhaps you will never take
it off or perhaps this is the beginning of your process, or a confirmation in
what Yahveh has been leading you in. For the things that we are emotionally
attached to, take time for us to sort out.
The Bonnets
I'd like to share a few verses of Scripture with you that contain what the priests
wore on their heads. In Exodus 39:28 it mentions the two types of coverings
for Aaron and his sons. One is the 'turban', and one is called a 'bonnet' (KJV)
or 'cap' (NAS). It is also mentioned in Ezekiel 21:26 (21:31 in the Hebrew),
and Ezekiel 44:18 (and other places).
In looking up the words in question, I have come to see that they would both
have better been translated as turban. Here is what I found from the Tenach.
The first part of Exodus 39:28 is:
'and the turban fine linen and the hats of the headbands...'9
Tzah-naf: the verb for the turban, means: 'to wind or wrap around'10
'to 'wrap, or wind up, together'11 'to wrap, wind
up together'12
Mitz-neh-fet: our noun for the turban, means: 'turban, espec.. of the high priest'13
'turban of high priest, turban of linen, sign of royalty14
'turban of the high priest'15
Tzah-neef: another noun means: 'turban'16 'turban,
royal turban'17 'turban'18
'Turban; also a sign of royalty...It was the distinctive head gear of the high
priest...The translation turban is supported by the derivation of the word from
sanap' (sic: sanaf) 'meaning 'to wrap around.'19
Now we come to the word in question that some translate as bonnet or cap. If
it was like a kipa then it would justify the wearing of a kipa for a Jew.
Pah-are: the verb for 'bonnet', means:'to adorn, beautify, honour'20
'beautify, glorify'21 'glorify, beautify, adorn'22
Pih-air: our noun means: 'ornamental head dress, turban'23
'head dress, turban...Ezk 44:18...of priest'24
'turban'25
'Turban. If the idea behind the verb is 'to clothe with beauty' it is only fitting
that a derivative from the verb should refer to some kind of clothing. The turban
was not limited to a certain sex or worn on just one occasion as the following
shows.
It could
be worn by women (Is 3:20, KJV 'bonnets') or by men Ezk 24:17, 23, Ezekiel himself,
KJV 'tire'). It also was worn by the high priest or priest and was made of linen
(Ex 39:28; Ezk 44:18). It was worn by the bridegroom (Isa 61:10), perhaps here
with the translation 'wreath' CF. also 'garland' for ashes in Isa 61:3.'26
The word in question (bonnet), is a turban, not a kipa or a bonnet (as we would
tend to think of a woman's bonnet). Why the KJV translates it as 'bonnet' is
beyond me. The last word that I'd like to deal with from our sentence is in
construct with our word in question.
Gah-vah: the verb means: 'to be high'27 'convex,
projecting, high'28
Giv-aht: a noun means: 'hill'29
Giv-aht: another noun means: 'hill, height, elevation. lower than a mountain'30
'hill'31
Gah-via: a noun means: 'cup, goblet...the cup or bell of a flower, as an ornament
of the sacred candlestick'32 'cup, bowl'33
'cup, bowl'34
Mig-vah-ah: our noun means: 'only pl. Mig-vah-oat: mitres or bonnets of the
common priests, probably of a conic form'35 'head
gear, turban, of common priest (conical? cf. Di Ex 28:40), Ex 28:40, Lv 8:13'36
Mig-vah-oat: 'turban, head gear, is used only four times: Ex 28:40; 29:9; Lev
8:13, convex in shape perhaps, translated by the RSV as 'cap.' It is worn by
the ordinary priests and is to be differentiated from the turban worn by the
high priest...'37
There was
a special turban for the High Priest but there were also turbans for the Aaronic
Priests, the sons of Aaron. There was nothing that resembled a kipa though.
And that's why I included the third word, which is in construct with our word
in question, for it has the shape of a hill. Some words that might prove helpful
in being defined are:
conical: 'resembling a cone esp. in shape'38 I
think it would tend to appear as 'hill' shaped. Like the Hills of Judah.
convex: '...vaulted, concave...curved or rounded like the exterior of a sphere
or circle...arched up: bulging out...'39 This would
seem to fit the description of a turban.
mitre : 'from Latin, head band, turban...Liturgical head dress worn by bishops
and abbots.40
bonnet: 'chiefly Scot...a man or boy's cap...a brimless Scotch cap of seamless
woolen fabric' (perhaps a stocking cap?), 'a cloth or straw hat tied under the
chin and worn by women and small children.'41
Checking
out how some bibles translate our words gives us an overall picture: Ezekiel
21:26:
King James Version: diadem
New American Standard: turban
New King James Version: turban
New International Version: turban
Kohlenberger Interlinear:42 turban
Koren Publishers:43 turban
Jewish Publication Society:44 mitre
And Ezekiel 44:18 has:
KJV: bonnets
NAS: turbans
NKJV: turbans
NIV: turbans
Interlinear: turbans
Koren: turbans
Jewish Pub: tires
Exodus 39:28: Remember that this is where the two words are:
KJV: mitre, goodly bonnets
NAS: turban, decorated caps
NKJV: turban, exquisite hats
NIV: turban, headbands
Interlinear:45 turban, hats of the headbands
Koren:46 mitre, turbans
Jewish Pub:47 mitre, head-tires
Speaking with Israelis about why we wear the kippa, two things come up. One
means that the person who wears it is really a Jew (a religious Jew; for there
are many Jewish Israelis that don't wear the kippa). Many wear them all day
while many others just wear them at the bet keneset (synagogue).And many do
not wear them whilst saying prayers.
The other reason they will give; is because the priests wore them or probably
more accurately, that the priests had their heads covered. (Israelis imagine
the priests actually wore the kippa.) (because that is
what they are told by the Rabbinic) But we have seen that the Aaronic
Priesthood was commanded to wear turbans. (But nowhere are any of the common
People commanded to have a head covering. Therefore, there is no biblical basis
to have to have one's head covered.) Again, I am not against wearing something
on one's head. But the religious symbolism of the kipa has nothing to do with
the priests' turbans, and far too much to do with the god of the sun.
The turbans for the priests were not given to them in order for them to be able
to stand before God.
As such
it reminds us of what Adam and Hava did when they heard His Voice calling to
them. They made for themselves fig leaves49 in
order to stand before Him. But these were not to be their covering. It was the
blood (death), from the skin of an animal50 that
was to truly be their covering. Something that God did for them, in order for
them to stand in His Presence.
If you choose to wear it to identify with the religious Jewish People, then
you are placing yourself symbolically under the authority of the Pharisees,
for traditional Judaism is a direct descendant of them, and history records
they were Apostates. The kippa is the Rabbinic religious
symbol coming from them, and what they say is “what one needs, in order
to be covered before the Living God.” But
again, ask; "Which G-d?"
Remember the Pope and the pagans had it many centuries before we Jewish People.
And of course, it first came into use among the Babylonians as the circular
tonsure.