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Ruchel ↓

Wed, Jun 20 2007, 6:59 pm

In my husband's family they used to have a wimpel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimpel and use it at the upsherin. It was common in their community at the time but totally disappeared, not even sure dh's great grandfather had one.
He thought it had disappeared from everywhere before I found this: http://onlysimchas.com/galleri.....id=10
and asked him if he knew what it was LOL

- did you hear about it?
- did you hear about people still doing it today?
- did YOU do it or plan to? if yes, where do you find the big sheet? do you embroider it yourself or have it done? what do you embroider?

Enlighten me!

baseballmom

Wed, Jun 20 2007, 7:21 pm

It is definetly still done in washington Heights, NY - boys bring their wimples to shul for their 3rd bday.

chocolate moose

Wed, Jun 20 2007, 9:07 pm

sure. yekkes do it. it's a big deal for them!

↑ Ruchel ↓

Wed, Jun 20 2007, 9:16 pm

^^
dh is Italian of German origin. It's nice that some still keep it, here well.. it's dead Sad

Bored ↓

Thu, Jun 21 2007, 4:13 am

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Thu, Jun 21 2007, 4:16 am

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sarahd ↓

Thu, Jun 21 2007, 4:24 am

You better believe it still exists. All the Torahs in our shul here are wrapped with Wimpels. B"H my husband doesn't have this minhag, because I am not great with the embroidery business - and both my son and my husband have three names!!!!!

TzenaRena

Thu, Jun 21 2007, 9:02 am

sarahd, is that under the usual velvet mantele? Or does it replace the velvet one? (PMO)

gold21

Thu, Jun 21 2007, 9:40 am

yeah we do this...!
go yekkes!!
I mean, my son is a year so I personally have not yet done it. we will IY"H have the wimpel and wimpel party when he turns 3...its like almost instead of the upsherin party, which we dont hold of--we cut hair whenever Tongue Out

I dont have that much info on it, as I did not do it yet...

613

Thu, Jun 21 2007, 1:22 pm

my sister is doing it (the minhag, not the embroidery itself) for her son. he's 2 now. bil's family is yekke.

Hashem_Yaazor

Thu, Jun 21 2007, 1:33 pm

I vividly remember one imamother's husband's bar mitzvah where they used his wimple on the sefer torah Smile

↑ sarahd

Thu, Jun 21 2007, 4:37 pm

TzenaRena wrote:

sarahd, is that under the usual velvet mantele? Or does it replace the velvet one? (PMO)

Most people bind the sefer Torah (after gelila) with a sort of velvet thing with a clasp. Yekkes use a wimpel instead. (Under the mantel.)

↑ Ruchel

Thu, Jun 21 2007, 5:03 pm

sarahd wrote:

sarahd are you in england?

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