Chabadnikim serving in the IDF who identify with the Meshichist element received a new guideline from the military today. They may no longer wear the so-called ‘Yechi’ yarmulkes.
IDF Says ‘No’ to Meshichist ‘Yechi’ Yarmulkes
Chabadnikim serving in the IDF who identify with the Meshichist element received a new guideline from the military today. They may no longer wear the so-called ‘Yechi’ yarmulkes.
Chief of the Conduct and Discipline Unit Lt. Colonel Oren Avraham issued the new order, Ladaat.net reports. The lt. colonel explains that all yarmulkes with writing are not permitted and this will not be an exception.
He also issued a number of other regulations, but they are not relevant to the chareidi soldier.
The new regulation was accepted by the chief of personnel, Major-General Orna Barvibai, and it permits any size yarmulke in any color, but without any and all writing.
yankel
Freedom rights. Yeah right. They allow you to wear yarmulkes with no problem. Explain to me what part of the Jewish or Chabad religion expects you and requires you to wear yechi on the yarmulke??
From the heart
Another reason for the chareidi to avoid the IDF even if this new law comes into effect.
brains
Right on.
Now outlaw it in the State of Israel.
Implementing This Rule In Yeshiva
Yeshivas need to implement this same rule.
All yarmulkes with writing and designs should not be permitted in Yeshiva.
What-s the problem?
What’s so bad about that?
GREAT!!
Pity we can’t ban them here, esp for old men with grey beards. They look ridiculous.
Thats how it should be
You should wear colors and logos of who you are fighting for. If not wear camo colors.
Ma Rabbi
While I am not a member of the “Yechi” club, I still think it is ridiculous for the Israeli army to ban Yechi yarmulkes.
Let me be - im not bothering anyone
Thats ridiculous, they should be allowed to wear any kipa they want.
Unless they make it part of uniform a certain type of kipa then they can say this, but otherwise they should not be allowed to exclude Yechi Yarmulkas in particular.
Wheres freedom rights?
Shlome Seldowitz
I predict that kipas with yechi logos will become popular instead.
Mendel
What a chutzpah! Don’t they know that this is what the Rebbe wanted us to wear ?!
Y Simon
to #8
There is no discrimination here. Read the article again. Everyone has to abide by the rule of no writing including na nach yarmulkes or anything anyone else might write, for instance their name.
You don’t have a right to walk into your job where there is a uniform and paste messages on your shirt.
larry
whats wrong with a yechi kipa the problem is some of the people who are wearing it do crazy things
yechi hamelech
B”H
its not against yechi yarmulkes alone, they banned any writing on yarmulkes i.e. yechi, na nachman, etc
Rabbonim - Wake Up!
Now when will the Rabbonim throughout Klal Yisroel wake up and issue a similar ruling.
DeClasse- Intellectual
So what is the big deal here?? It should have never even become an issue or a blog discussion. All armies have dress codes and in this case the code does nothing to affect the persons inner religious beliefs. I, for one, would not be best pleased if I was in the Israeli army and some person next to me kept putting the “the yechi concept” in my face:
Get real out there: No amount of screeming yechi nor plastering it all over your clothes will acomplish anything–it just nothingings( You should read BEING AND NOTHINGNESS to be enlightened) You go to Crown Heights and see all this protestations of “Yechi” and yet all you get is fights over who controls the Shul in 770, stories of horrible decorim in 770, questions about the leadership in the Jewish community, is a Rov really a Rov, the arguements over control in the Maple Street Shul and ad nauseum.
It would be better to put the Rebbe’s adminition in place with Kidnesss and good deeds and the love of your fellow Jews as a actual reality. Granted there are disagreements–but do you have to make a schmaltzy mess over it as has been done consistently in Crown Heights and an embarrisment to the community?
Screeming obtains nothing–but kindness and good deeds might bring you the Moschiah?
How about moshiach pins
First no Yechi Yarmulkas -then No Yarmulkas period.
It’s the same anti- religious govt that passed the Me Hu Yehudi law and gave Gush Katif back to the Arabs.
Could you have your name written on the Yarmulka. What if someones name is Yechi Hamelech
What about a tattoo with Yechi on it.
finally why cant they ban it in the
finally if only the ch rabbis had the guts to do it and help save lubavitch from people who are destroying the rebbes work
Very Bothered
To #8. Let me be – im not bothering anyone:
You are indeed bothering me and many others, and not just bothering us a little, but bothering us a lot. You are anyway quite dim-witted for believing that silliness, and how much more so for contending that you do not even realize how much you are indeed bothering other Yiddin.
(I would express myself even stronger than this only it is unlikely that my true sentiments on this matter would be posted on a Lubavitcher website.)
to number 8
You are a soldier. You dont have rights when you have orders. And btw they are not just banning yechi yamulkas but any that have logos on them.
Great Idea
Bring the IDF to 770!
CR
“What if someones name is Yechi Hamelech”
I suspect that CPS would have forcibly removed him from his home as a young child as his parents clearly have issues.
“You are a soldier. You dont have rights when you have orders.”
This! Soldiers do not have freedom. Their job is to protect YOUR freedom. As a company of soldiers must function as a single unit it is important that their uniforms be, well, uniform. Regulations pertaining to headgear are part of that.
#8 and #14
OMG! Seriously?!
The rule is against ANY writing on the kippa, not the kippa itself (attn #14). It goes along the same lines as wearing a uniform. (check that word in the dictionary). Besides, when fighting, writing stands out more than the kippa itself.
And to #18, where have you been all these years? The IDF comes on organized trips to 770. The Rebbe himself called veterans (especially the wounded) Mitzuyanim (exceptional) and he hosted them MANY times. (And if they can’t get to NY, they go to Kfar Chabad).
And back to #14, were you absent from school the day they taught the posuk in Chumash that tattoos were forbidden???!!! If you’re a Mishechist AND you have a tattoo, I have a great deal of rachmonus for you.
One sin brings to another
“First no Yechi Yarmulkas -then No Yarmulkas period.”
#17 your absolutely right.
Usually when a frum kid puts on a Yechi Yarmlka, his next step is to take off his Yarmlka all together.
“One sin brings to another” (Pirkei Avot Chapter 4- Mishna 2)
Rules for woman
Married woman is the IDF also have rules as to what color their hair covering must be.
Mitnagid
To the ones who oppose the Idf’s decision for freedom’s sake:what would ya say if someone sported a kippah with the writing ”Yoshke is the L-rd!” ?
DONT BLAME YECHI
ITS NOT “YECHI” THEY BAN ! ITS DESIGNS THAT THEY BAN!
tzfatim into tzachal
draft the tzfatim in the army maybe they will get the right treatment there
HMK
I’ve seen a member of the Yechi religion with a tatoo: Avodah Zarah full circle.
Avrahom
Rav Yosef Heller, The Rosh Collel, does not allow Yechi Yalmulkas in the Collel . All we need to do is have the Rosh Yeshiva in 770 to follow suit .
RS
its just reasonable.
Behema Gassa
“What if someones name is Yechi Hamelech”
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Rumor has it there is a boy named Boruch Haba Melech Hamoshiach which is roshei teivois…behema. I do not know if it is true.
Sternie
I know a little boy whose name is “Yechi Hamelech”.
The boy is perfectly normal… ahum. I guess that makes one out of the family…
Bochurim taking over
I’m in netzach with a yechi yarmulka my commander is cool with it as long as the letters arernt white cuz of reflection in the field
TO NUMBER 16
There is no argument over who controls the Maple St Shul. The argument is whether there should be elections for a board of directors or should there not be elections. The old 6 member board of directors has been there without change since 1979. So most of everyone davening in the Maple ST Shul say their time is finally up and it is now time to vote for a new board of directors.
A Fight?!
Why should this be on your site?!
they made a law about all writing and designs, what does yechi have to do with the whole picture? are you trying to add on to the machlokes?
Yah
To 32 there is for sure one named Yechi hamelech hamoshiach menachem mendel
To 30 perhaps he has the rule but in my year plus in kolel it was never mentioned or implemented
To #3
Outlaw the s—- of israel. They are the only real threat to the world, not iran al queda, etc.
To #4
I have no problem with yarmulkes in yeshiva. They don’t cause problems. The yeshivahs are the problem. Ban the yeshivahs not yarmulkes.
To # 10
Hope you are right. Those other pieces of cloth are useless shmates that they stick on their heads. Throw them away like everthing else in yiddishkeit that they threw away. I think they just want to look like arabs so they wear those plain old cloth’s on their heads.
Levi
I think the rule is very sensible. The title of the article is somewhat misleading in that it seems to imply that only Yechi yarmulkes are being singled out and banned. Every army has its rules, and it makes perfect sense that they would not want people flaunting their beliefs or any other random messages on their clothing (whether it’s a yarmilke or shirt) as they would want all soldiers to be dressed as uniformly as possible, if only to promote a sense of unity and solidarity. This is clearly not a breach of religeous freedom in any way (now if the army ruled, for instance, that soldiers can’t wear yarmulkes at all – now that would obviously be a different story, but that is not the case here).
To #15
Let them sleep. You know the saying,“ Let sleeping dogs lay.” They are capable of doing nothing good and everything bad. You to, go to sleep you fool.
to #24
I highly doubt that the clean shaven men flopping around Crown Heights in their flip flops and shorts started out with Yechi yarmulkas, aside from my husband but he had a mental breakdown so that’s a different story plus he DOESN’T PRETEND that he’s Chabad anymore. He is proud that our son wears a Yechi yarmulka and is the real legit Lubavitcher with the chayus in the right places for the Rebbe’s inyonim. Bli ayin hora.
to #42
You know it really is more “sinister.” If they wanted to make a dress code they should have limited the yarmulkas to a specific color but to have everyone from black to maroon to cobalt blue and that green they started wearing is pretty distracting. Yechi HaMelech.
To#6
Great news. Sholom Ber is funding tickets for 2000 bochurim from Eretz Yisrael to come to the MHM for Yom Tov. Now you will get to see 2000 MORE YECHI yarmulkes to make the atmoshphere in 770 and C.H. more enjoyable. Not just old chassidim but young ones also are joining in. I hear there is another fund for more Yechi bochurim to come. Hope it is true. It will be a good influence on the young children and also for the older people as well.
bh bh yay
meat meat agarshenu…
thanks to bibi
DeClasse- Intellectual
#35, you missed the whole point. The whole affair about elections and so forth should not havwe been public debate on this blog, but just the fact aht the Maple Street shul would have election or that the result of recent elections were. Instead, the whole speil about elections became a public wash
P.S. when you have elections bnecause the “Old guys’ have been there for how long–is that not about who controls?
Avrahom
To number 38. You deserve to be put in cherem for talking that way about a Torah Scholar and Rav that the Rebbe himself endorsed. Take 10 friends and go ask mehilah from the Rav. from number 30
CR
The IDF is to be commended for the efforts they have made to accomodate chassidish/yeshivish/hareidi recruits in recent years. They have set up units and companies that take into account the requirements of these communities in kashrus, tahara, shabbos, limud, etc. Nevertheless, they are still army units and uniformity of uniforms is essential. Regulations concerning all outer wear, including headgear, are part-and-parcel. As one commentor already suggested above, the Nachal Hareidi command center should issue standard kippot with their uniforms to settle all such issues here.
TO # 39
you would make a perfect suicide bomber.
Try it you’ll like it.
To #49 from Zaide Gedaliah
You would probably call that guy that used to be alive in b’nei brak, and that guy that was from vilna, lo aleinu, scholars. I won’t use the word Torah in connection with them. So many Yidden died from their great scholarship. Same thing going on today with our scholars that run collels, yeshivas, etc.
A pnimi
What? You can’t be a chitzon in the IDF?
JustMe
what a bunch of crock this whole topic is – likewise to the idiot above who says the rebbe said we should do this…just amazing where the brain ends up when you have such mindless matters all around us. Nebach!
Yehoshua Werth, Monsey
The title should be IDF wants uniform to have no writing on Kopel/Kippa/Yarmulke….now made into rule.. This will effect people with Names, Na Nach, Yechi and so on.
Is a person so linked with ones Levush that to alter a little one could risk the lose who they are.. Would love to see this topic Taiched out of the Tanya. If anything the Rebbe taught us to grow with the times and keep up our connection to Hashem, the Previous Rebbe’s & Great Rabbi’s thru time teaching’s in our lives. The thought of removing a modern inovation
Again. all people by the IDF will have no writing on the Head covering.
Rabbi Pinchos Woolstone
the IDF should have a military issue yamulka, then there will be no arguments
Yossel
Why all the “hate” comments again Yechi? If you think that outlawing “Yechi” will bring Moshiach closer, you are fooling yourself.
I am not a fanatic, I don’t wear a yellow flag, but it bothers me that there is such hatred against the words the Rebbe spoke at a farbrengen.
Further, my observation is that the big “Antis” in CH (and elsewhere) are pursuing gashmius, fancy houses, marble shuls, fleeced cars, etc. and not doing very much to do hafotzos mayonos, while Mishechistim are enthusiastic about Yiddishkeit and Chassidus. Most are not pretentious or social-climbers or snobs, many are poor! I am NOT! referring to the meshigginas who are violating halacha (like the Redemption Ladies), but normal healthy people who happen to believe that the Rebbe’s words are holy.
Please stop all the hatred and pursue love of your fellow Yidden. Thank you….
Mihole
It’s a slippery slope, which ultimately leads to writing something offensive, such as what the Elohistim say, or an obscenity.
chaim
to 11 and where did you get that from