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Kolpik

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Kolpik is a type of traditional headgear worn in families of many Chassidic Rebbes (Hasidic rabbis), by unmarried children on Shabbat and by Rebbes on special occasions. Image:Belz1.jpg Image:תמונות ופקסמיליות שונות 166.jpg it is a made from brown fur, as opposed to a spodik, worn by polish chassidic dynasties, which is fashioned out of black fur.

The word originated from a Turkic word for this kind of hats, qalpaq.

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