Kippah: Difference between revisions

# If one cannot get a job unless one does not wear a Kippah at work, one does not have to forfeit one's job for this mitzvah. If they allow one to wear a regular hat one must wear such a hat. Also, when one enters another room or the marketplace one must put ones Kippah back on even if one will be mocked, as long as there is no concern of losing one’s job. <Ref> Sh”t Igrot Moshe (C”M 1:93 and O”C 4:2) writes that since wearing a Kippah is neither a positive or negative mitzvah one need not lose a large portion of ones money by not taking such a job. However since they do not care if you wear it in another room or in the marketplace one must wear it in such places. Sh”t Igrot Moshe Y”D 4:11(3) adds that even according to the Taz who holds there is a prohibition of Chukot HaGoyim (that the practice of Goyim used to be to always wear hats and when they sat down to eat or something similar they would take off their hat) nowadays it would not apply since people do not generally wear hats. Thus, one can take a job at a place where they do not allow one to wear a Kippah. However, if they allow one to wear a regular hat (not a Kippah) one should wear a hat.