Jerusalem – With its many applications the iPhone has a wide range of capabilities, and now it can also serve as a virtual yarmulke in a bind.
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The iKippa application, which arrived at Apple’s App Store yesterday, enables users to place the iPhone on their head, showing a display of a knitted kippa, a white kippa for the gadget-monger getting married or even a kippa with virtual gold thread.
The application itself does not have a heshsher, but according to Uri Keidar, the creator of the iKippa, although many people are under the impression placing their hand on their head can serve in lieu of a yarmulke, the truth is that anything else can. “According to halacha, part of the head must be covered, but the material does not matter. So using this application is no problem,” he says.
The cost is $1. To download the application here
iYiddishe Kop
What a joke!
What a dumb idea!
1) how would you keep the perfectly flat 2 1/4 x5 1/4 on your head?
2) If it falls off it will cost $150 to fix, if it can be fixed.
3) For those of you who need a picture, save the dollar, go to http://www.kippotcenter.com/ from your I phone as save the image of your choice
Can’t wait for the iSheitel to come out!
Next they’ll come up with ibiber/ishtufene/iplatchig/ibentup/ibentdown/ ihamburg- hit. Then ishtreimel/icolpick/ispodik, but for these you’ll probably need a netbook…
This is a joke and in some respects, a bitul torah for making a joke from somthing important. If you don’t have a kipah, it is not a big deal to walk a short distance to get a replacement or find somthing else to put over your head. Lets stop finding chumrahs that don’t exist to create solutions that are not needed. There is no record of the Ebeshter ever having struck down some poor yid who lost his yarmulke and walked more than daled amos to get a replacement.
I am wondering who will buy the app?
I think this is really stupid, but mad why didn’t I think of that.
If covering your head with anything is Ok why buy the app just put the Iphone on your head with no app.
When is the iStreimel coming out?
Do you need two applications, one for the iWeekday hat and one for the iStreimel, or can you change the hat in one application?
do they come in black velvet?
Will there be a choice of 6 slice and 4 slice?
covering your head with your own hand is no good acc to halocho. It needs to be almost anything except your own flesh
Just spend $2 and buy a real kippah.
And you won’t look like a fool either.
Umm…for all you taking this so seriously this is a cute/funny thing. Obviously for kicks, you can put your iphone on your head without a picture of a yarmuLka. Let’s lighten up and save all this constant bashing for real problems.
(1) If the battery dies, do you have to stop davening?
(2) If you run ten instances of the app simultaneously, can you say Borchu?
(3) Is there a setting for leather/suede/srugah/Yerushalmi?
1- What do you do if it starts raining
2- Do they have Gerrer Yarlmakas
3- It’s Goyish because they only have knitted ones
4- When will they get iteffilin
5- When will they get the igartell
6- WHEN WILL ALL YOU PEOPLE GET A SENSE OF HUMOR!!!!
(stop taking this so seriously, its just a joke)
i-vey
What about shabbos?
I refuse to wear a knitted App on my head! This is a call for all G-d fearing Jews to boycot Apple until a velvet app is available.
Number one, a hand is not a kosher replacement for a yarmulka. Number two, i wonder if in a couple of years we”ll be hearing stories about how many baleii tshuvah were created from this?