Editing Hasidic Judaism (section)

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[[File:Hasidic Family in Street - Borough Park - Hasidic District - Brooklyn.jpg|thumb|210px|left|Hasidic family in [[Borough Park, Brooklyn]]. The man is wearing a [[shtreimel]], and either a [[bekishe]] or a [[rekel]]. The woman is wearing a wig, called a ''sheitel'' in Yiddish, as according to [[halakha]], she is forbidden to show her hair to anyone outside her immediate family after marriage.]]
[[File:Rabbi Moshe Leib Rabinovich.JPG|thumb|150px|right|[[Moshe Leib Rabinovich]], the [[Munkacs (Hasidic dynasty)|Munkacser]] rebbe, wearing a [[kolpik]]]]
[[File:HasidicRebbe.jpg|thumb|150px|right|The [[Dorohoi]] rebbe in his traditional rabbinical [[Shabbat]] garb]]
Within the Hasidic world, it is possible to distinguish different Hasidic groups by subtle differences in dress. Some details of their dress are shared by non-Hasidic Haredim. Much of Hasidic dress was historically the clothing of all Eastern European Jews, influenced by the style of [[szlachta|Polish–Lithuanian nobility]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Goldberg-Mulkiewicz|first=Olga|encyclopedia=[[The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe]]|title=Dress|url=https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Dress|access-date=20 February 2014}}</ref> Furthermore, Hasidim have attributed religious origins to specific Hasidic items of clothing.

Hasidic men most commonly wear dark overclothes. On weekdays, they wear a long, black, cloth jacket called a [[rekel]] in Yiddish, and on Jewish holidays, the [[bekishe|bekéshe]] and {{transliteration|yi|zaydene kapote}} "silk [[kaftan]]", a similarly long, black jacket, but of [[satin]] (traditionally silk. Indoors, the colorful ''tish bekéshe'' is still worn. Some Hasidim wear a satin overcoat called a ''radzivulke'' (after the noble wear of the Polish [[House of Radziwiłł]])

On Shabbat, rebbes traditionally wore a white bekéshe. However, this practice has fallen into disuse among most. Many wear a black silk bekeshe with velvet trim called ''strókes'' [[piping (sewing)|piping]] or ''samet'' "[[samite]]"; in Hungarian ones, they are gold-embroidered.

Various symbolic and religious qualities are attributed to Hasidic dress, though they are mainly apocryphal as their origin is cultural and historical. For example, bekeshes are modest, the [[shtreimel]] is warm but not [[wool]] (thus not violating rules of [[shaatnez]]). Shabbat shoes are laceless not to have to tie a knot, a [[rabbinically prohibited activities of Shabbat|rabbinically prohibited activity of Shabbat]]. A [[gartel]] divides the Hasid's lower parts from his upper parts, implying modesty and chastity. For kabbalistic reasons, Hasidim buttoned their clothes right over the left. Hasidic men customarily wear black hats on weekdays, as do nearly all Haredi men today. A variety of hats are worn depending on the group: Chabad men often pinch their hats to form a triangle on the top, Satmar men wear an open-crown hat with rounded edges, and ''samet'' "velvet hat" or ''biber'' [[beaver hat]] are worn by many Galician and Hungarian Hasidic men.

Married Hasidic men don a variety of fur [[headdress]]es on the Sabbath, once common among all wedded Eastern European Jewish males and still worn by non-Hasidic [[Perushim]] in Jerusalem. The most ubiquitous is the shtreimel, which is seen especially among Galician and Hungarian sects like Satmar or Belz. A taller ''[[spodik]]'' is donned by Polish dynasties such as [[Ger (Hasidic dynasty)|Ger]]. A ''[[kolpik]]'' is worn by unmarried sons and grandsons of many Rebbes on the Sabbath. Some Rebbes don it on special occasions.

There are many other distinct items of clothing. Such are the [[Ger (Hasidic dynasty)|Gerrer]] ''hoyznzokn –'' long black socks into which the trousers are tucked. Some Hasidic men from [[Eastern Galicia]] wear black socks with their breeches on the Sabbath, as opposed to white ones on weekdays, particularly [[Belz (Hasidic dynasty)|Belzers]].

Following a Biblical commandment not to shave the sides of one's face (Leviticus 19:27), male members of most Hasidic groups wear long, uncut sidelocks called [[payot]]. Some Hasidic men shave off the rest of their hair. Not every Hasidic group requires long peyos, and not all Jewish men with peyos are Hasidic, but all Hasidic groups discourage the shaving of one's beard. Most Hasidic boys receive their [[upsherin]] ritual, a first haircut, at the age of three years ([[Skver (Hasidic dynasty)|Skverer]]s do this on boys' second birthday). Until then, Hasidic boys have long hair.

Hasidic women wear clothing adhering to the principles of [[tzeniut]], modest dress. This includes long conservative skirts, sleeves past the elbow, and covered necklines. Also, women wear stockings to cover their legs; in some Hasidic groups, such as Satmar or [[Toldos Aharon]], the stockings must be opaque. In keeping with halakha, [[head covering for Jewish women|married women wear a head covering]], using either a ''sheytel'' "wig", ''tikhl'' "headscarf", ''shpitzl'' "[[snood (headgear)|snood]]", [[beret]], or other hat. In some Hasidic groups, women may wear two headcoverings – a wig and scarf or a wig and hat.