Religious clothing some communities by all married men) on Rosh Hashanah, Hoshanah Rabbah, Tefilas Tal, and Tefilas Geshem. A groom will generally wear a kittel during the wedding ceremony as well. In some Sefardic communities, a Rabbi or a Hazzan may wear a similar white robe at weddings and at prayer services. In Jewish Mysticism, wearing a thin red string (as a type of talisman) is a custom, popularly thought to be associated with Judaism's Kabbalah, in order to ward off misfortune brought about by an "evil eye" ("עין הרע" in Hebrew). In Yiddish the red string is called a "roite bindele".
Heliotrope (color) Heliotrope (color) Heliotrope is a pink-purple tint that is a representation of the colour of the heliotrope flower. The first recorded use of heliotrope as a color name in English was in 1882. The color heliotrope gray is displayed at right. The first recorded use of "heliotrope gray" as a colour name in English was in 1912. The source of this colour is: "ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Colour Names" (1955)--Colour Sample of Heliotrope Gray (color sample #227) At right is displayed the colour old heliotrope. Another name for this colour is "old helio". The first recorded use of "old helio" as