Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
kittle . - noun A Yiddish name for an ample linen or cotton robe which orthodox Jews wear on three solemn occasions, namely, at nuptial ceremonies (by the bridegroom); at the seder service, on the first two evenings of Passover (by the master of ceremonies); and on the Day of Atonement. Pious Jews are also buried dressed in a kittel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb See
kittle , v. t.
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Examples
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Holidays I wear his kittel, and I prepare for the High Holidays from the mahzor of my uncle, Rabbi Mordechai Stern.
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I also changed into a kittel (white robe used as a shroud) during the ceremony because I wanted to acknowledge that I was on the journey to the end of my life.
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After leading her congregation in prayer, in preparation for the Torah service, Savina donned a kittel, a traditional burial shroud, to acknowledge that this celebration was also the beginning of the last chapter of her life.
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The act of wrapping and unwrapping these objects in white cloths alludes not only to an ordinary physical act (albeit one that brings to mind the white kittel, the prayergown-turned-shroud, in which Orthodox Jews are buried), but also a metaphysical one — a metaphor for concealment and discovery.
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And now we understand why we rehearse our death on Yom Kippur–why we say Vidui and wear a kittel and refrain from eating–why in the middle of this day, we send our proxy, now the cantor, into the dangerous emptiness at the center.
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And now we understand why we rehearse our death on Yom Kippur–why we say Vidui and wear a kittel and refrain from eating–why in the middle of this day, we send our proxy, now the cantor, into the dangerous emptiness at the center.
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As I headed back down to the chapel in my white kittel, the special garment that is the color of mercy, worn only on the Day of Atonement, I heard a precocious five-year-old avouch nasally, “My Barbie wins”
The Barbie Chronicles Yona Zeldis McDonough 1999
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As I headed back down to the chapel in my white kittel, the special garment that is the color of mercy, worn only on the Day of Atonement, I heard a precocious five-year-old avouch nasally, “My Barbie wins”
The Barbie Chronicles Yona Zeldis McDonough 1999
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The rabbi hung up his topcoat and hat and put on his skullcap and the white robe which was the conservative compromise on the orthodox kittel or grave vestment.
Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry Kemelman, Harry 1966
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And now we understand why we rehearse our death on Yom Kippur-why we say Vidui and wear a kittel and refrain from eating-why in the middle of this day, we send our proxy, now the cantor, into the dangerous emptiness at the center.
Danya Ruttenberg 2009
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