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Maybe someone’s kippah was just chosen because it was comfortable, not to make some sort of group affiliation.
Someone might wear a leather kippah because it keeps one’s head warmer than a thin polyester one.
Maybe someone wears a velvet kippah because it sits on one’s head more easily than other options.
Why do people affiliate a kippah type with a particular group?
Comfort is a valid and legitimate reason.
Good point, Lightbright. I think people do choose kippas for those reasons, to some extent. For example, the stereotype is that charedi Jews always wear velvet (sometimes polyester instead), but a survey in Israel found that a sizable percentage (I don’t remember how much, perhaps 20%) of self-identified charedim wore knitted kippas (I assume black, but you never know…)
Are you suggesting that the fact that 99% of folks in Teaneck wear a much different yarmulka than folks in Kiryas Yoel is merely highly coincidental? Is it warmer in NY than in NJ?
It’s not coincidental. It’s because of Khazar Meshugas.
No, mostly people wear kippas because that’s the same kind of kippa everyone in the group they identify with wears. A partial exception is MO–some wear srugi, some leather, some velvet, etc.
Why does a Kipa have to be an identifier? Why does one need to identify at all?
“It’s not coincidental. It’s because of Khazar Meshugas.”
The Sephardic descendents of the Khazars don’t uniformly wear the same kippa.
Only Ashkenazim were affected by the Khazar scourge. And yes Sephardim don’t uniformly wear same kipa because to do so is a neurosis that emanates from Central and Eastern Europe.
1. The Khazars melted into the Sephardic population. They also lived in a geographically Sephardic region of the world. Today’s Sephardim are a mix of the original Sephardim, the Khazars and the Eidah Hamizrach.
2. On Isru Chag you call the Khazars a “scourge”. Yet on Erev Yom Tov you called them kosher geirim. How did you end up changing your mind over the last three days?
I used the words “kosher Gerim”?
Following your krumme logic that Rashi, as an Ashkenazi, must’ve come from the Khazars, you retorted (direct quote of you:) “I wouldn’t respect Rashi less if he were a descendant of converts.” Thus implying that the Khazar converts were kosher geirim, not your new tune of today that they (and implicitly Rashi and the Baalei Tosfos too) are a “scourge”.
P.S. The Rabad, Rav Avraham ibn Daud (a Sephardic godol), mentions encountering rabbinical students descended from Khazars in Toledo, Spain in the 1160s. Here’s a Sephardic source that clearly the Khazars merged into the Sephardic world. Hence you have no and can produce no evidence that they melted into the Ashkenazic world; only strong evidence that the Khazars melted into the Sephardic world.
If one was to start their own minhag and wear a Borseliono without a brim, would that be viewed as a NEW kipah? At some point, doesn’t a kipah made with feaux fur look like a shtreimlach that shrunk from the rain or is being worn by an ehrliche yid/animal rights machmir obsessed with tikun olam? It all depends on your perspective and that of the individual who may be trying to either identify with/distinguish himself from the local tzibur.
“Here’s a Sephardic source that clearly the Khazars merged into the Sephardic world.”
Not really a source except for a few.
Anyways, I was reading about Jewish genetic geneolgy on Wikipedia this morning, before looking at this thread.
It said that there are basically no genetic links from Jews to the Khazars.
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