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Yoreh Deah 181. Sidelocks in English, or pe'ot in Hebrew, anglicized as payot [a] ( Hebrew: פֵּאוֹת, romanized : pēʾōt, "corners") or payes ( Yiddish pronunciation: [peyes] ), is the Hebrew term for sidelocks or sideburns. Payot are worn by some men and boys in the Orthodox Jewish community based on an interpretation of the Tanakh 's ...
Upsherin, Upsheren, [1] Opsherin or Upsherinish ( Yiddish: אָפּשערן, romanized : opshern, lit. 'shear off', Judeo-Arabic: חלאקה, romanized: ḥalāqa [2]) is a first haircut ceremony observed by a wide cross-section of Jews and is particularly popular in Haredi Judaism. It is typically held when a boy turns three years old.
The forbidding of shaving the corners of the head was interpreted by the Mishnah as prohibiting the hair at the temples being cut so that the hairline was a straight line from behind the ears to the forehead; thus it was deemed necessary to retain sidelocks, leading to the development of a distinctly Jewish form of sidelock, known as payot.
A ringlet is a type of hairstyle. Ringlets are often also known as princess curls or corkscrew curls. It is achieved by wrapping a lock of hair around the length of a thin curling iron or can be done naturally by people with sufficiently curled hair. The curls can also be achieved by hair rollers. [1] Loose ringlets can be created just by ...
Shtreimel. A shtreimel ( Yiddish: שטרײַמל shtrayml, plural: שטרײַמלעך shtraymlekh or שטרײַמלען shtraymlen) is a fur hat worn by some Ashkenazi Jewish men, mainly members of Hasidic Judaism, on Shabbat and Jewish holidays and other festive occasions. [1] In Jerusalem, the shtreimel is also worn by Litvak Jews (non ...
A Jewish variant of the 'Afro' hairstyle. Jheri curl: Hair that is curly and kept moist (or at least a wet-look maintained) by a Jheri curl activator. This style was popular in the 1980s especially with African-Americans, including Michael Jackson and Rick James. Layered hair
Tzitzit shares this root with the Hebrew for 'lock of hair'. For example, in the Book of Ezekiel an angel grabs the prophet "by the tzitzit of [his] head;" he could be said to be "dragged by his hair." A popular etymological interpretation of tzitzit derives from another word which shares this root.
A Jewish woman wearing a sheitel with a shpitzel or snood on top of it. A shpitzel ( Yiddish: שפּיצל) is a head covering worn by some married Hasidic women. It is a partial wig that only has hair in the front, the rest typically covered by a small pillbox hat or a headscarf. [37]