Objects that are used during holidays, festivals and/or different tradtions and beleifs
Traditions
Traditions rest on the desire of individuals to sustain customs and beliefs which they experienced in their parents’ homes. In practice, over the generations Jews have embraced local customs which did not necessarily derive from halakha and the dictates of Jewish law.
Although initially adopted by Jews in a particular community, some of those customs later spread throughout the Jewish diaspora. That explains, for example, how the Chassidic custom of wearing a kapote (a long dark coat) and the designs of religious artifacts originating in one place reached additional communities as well. That was also the case regarding holiday-related customs such as the mimuna celebrated by North African Jews, the dreidel game, whose source is a Middle Age German game, the Yemenite chalakah (boys’ first haircut) and the afikoman, the piece of matzah hidden on Passover.