Why do Sephardim wear a yarmulka all day?

What you’re claiming is completely untrue and I have no idea what you’re seeking to gain with this thread.

I have National Geographic magazines from the 1940’s that talk about the Jewish community of Morocco and mentions that they wore Yarmulkes. I don’t know of any proofs you could bring from poskim to corroborate what you’re saying.

Rav Ovadyah Yosef in his Yechaveh Daas Chelek 4:1 says that wearing yarmulka is a midas chasidus according the Beis Yosef, still people should cover their head in order that it should indicate who is a religious orthodox Torah observing Jew.

Th purpose of wearing a Yarmulke = “yira mei eloka”…..

so if you want 2 have yiras shamayim—wear a yarmulke!!!

–there foor many people have even tried to make sure to wear a yarmulke, even at night while sleepin in bed by purchasing a shluff kappel.

It is not uncommon for Sefardim who are considered observant to not wear a kipa. Indeed, classically speaking,,
a lack of a kipa was not a sign of not being religious. The person could have been very pious and learned but at work, for example, they didn’t wear it. Some reasons that they DO wear a kipa are:
1.they grew up this way
2.they wish to be more stringent
3.nowadays it’s safer and easier to wear one
4.as a whole Sfaradim have been influenced by the mores of religious Ashkenazim
5.they live in a community where this is the norm.

YY: Be so kind as to explain a difference between a yarmulka and a “kippa”. Is what the kippa sruga crowd wears something different than what the Yeshivish and Chasidish crowds wear?

Joseph, here is an obvious difference. Yarmulka is a Yiddish derived term that a Sfardi would not think of using.

Probably not a major factor but I’ve never seen any old photos or artwork placed from North Africa or the Spanish Portuguese region riding around in Streimlach……perhaps the climate lent itself to a “cooler look”

In a world of kafias, turbans etc… it’s hard to believe that sephardim didn’t generally wear a head covering. Maybe they didn’t consider it a Halachic necessity outside of davening but head coverings were normal. Coming to America, where the forces of tumah are infinitely greater, they needed it just like Ashkenazim, among whom some groups also did not consider wearing in the home a necessity. In fact,a few hundred years ago the same question could have been posed about Ashkenazim. Ashkenazic Jewry did a favor to all Jews by creating the kippah, a simple head covering that fits much easier into modern society.

“Your being motzee shem rah on frum yidden “and you know it””

Frum Yidden cover their heads.

“Sephardim are not into much Modern Orthodoxy or Daati Leumi. Those are by and large Ashkenazic contraptions.”

Without getting into whether or not this statement is true at all, it has no relevance. Nobody said all Sephardim are MO/daati leumi; what I said is that the people going around without their heads covered are MO (at best). This is pretty indisputable and I don’t know why we’re still talking about it. The only people trying to say that real frum yidden go around with bare heads are those with an extreme left-wing agenda.

Neville- We’re usually on the same side of issues, so I’m not sure where this struck a nerve. Certainly in Israel, and to a lesser degree in the US, a sfardi jew putting on a headcovering when entering shul, or even when just making a brachah, has nothing at all to do with MO (are you seriously going to entertain a tzad that a cab driver in Jlem has a clue who Lamm was??) nor are they dati leumi. They are frum people and this is their custom. While there may be other elements of their yiddishkeit that is also not as stringent as the norm, they are not dati light or MO, this is just them, the same way a lot of them come to davening shabbos morning in jeans and a tshirt, and it’s just how they do things.

As Neville correctly said they all wore some sort of head covering whether at home or at work with absolutely no exceptions. The goyim also had beards and some sort of headcovering.
Then around 100 years ago the alliance came followed by the zionists and modernized them or made them completely irreligious ,thats when they started to go bearheaded

So the word custom or minhag does not come into this.
The same way you can’t say that the custom or minhag of the teimanim is to shave and not to have beard or peyos, as we clearly see both in pictures and in real life that they all had a beard and peyos

@Yabia Omer- Except I do…And that’s a pretty dumb, broad (pardon the pun) statement full of dislike for ashkenazim and not much else.

Neville, you’re totally misreading the issue. Like, mamsh. Trust me, I’m closer to Joseph on the hashkafic spectrum, received (and hold of) the standard yeshivish hashkafas, learnt in the reg. yeshivish yeshivas, and can honestly tell you, you;re missing the boat by miles. You’re conflating ashkenazi american trends, with those crowds shifting to the left/mo, with sfardim the world over who don;t associate a tshirt on shabbos with being modern, the same way you wouldn’t wear sandals on shabbos, but the mizrachi/dati crowd does and that doesn’t make them MO, it’s just what they are. You’re off, buddy, waaaay off.

Toi it’s nothing about dislike. Ashkenazim and Sfaradim are brothers. Period. But even the HIDA said that on an esoteric level, Ashkenazim are influenced by Midat Hadin. As such they are more likely to be extreme in their worldview.

Neville, although it is SIMILAR to MO, it’s not. MO is a recent American, Ashkenazic invention. And let’s say it is MO. Nu? So? What’s wrong with it?

It’s pathetic. You guys are going to take every MO trend, and call it as it is when Ashkenazim do it, but make excuses with Sphardim do it. It’s embarrassing how much left-wing PC culture has crept it’s way into the frum world.

There are many frum Sphardim out there who probably would not appreciate you trying to say their mesorah is synonymous with Modern Orthodoxy.

There was traditionally no stratification of Judaism among Sfaradim. There’s no Haredi, Modern Orthodox, left, right, etc etc. The are all recent Ashkenazic inventions. In Spehardic culture everyone is part of the fold. There’s no “Mihutz lamahane moshavo” as it were. If you were very pious, great. If you didn’t keep Shabbat 100% you were still accepted.

It should be noted that covering one’s head is a concept discussed way back in the Gemara. It’s not a recent thing. Everyone agrees that covering one’s head is virtuous. But it’s omission doesn’t make someone irreligious.

From Yabia Omer: “…even the HIDA said that on an esoteric level, Ashkenazim are influenced by Midat Hadin”

Now that’s interesting. Is it quoted in a particular Sefer?

“The big difference is that MO have a hashkafa for being MO. They are, generally, Bisheeta MO.”

That’s not a real difference l’maaseh. If they behave in a way which–today–we call “MO,” then I don’t really care what their kavana is, they’re MO. Labels are our friends. They tell us who’s kashrus can be trusted, to which shuls we can go, etc.

Neville you’re so שקוע in this need to label everything that you’re lost without it. Everything for you needs a label or category. I am envious I’m my ancestors who were so much more Pashut, simple. No complications. We think we’re so intelligent.