thumb|center|600px|A modern Wimpel with the name obscured
thumb|center|600px|A modern Wimpel with the name obscured
A wimpel (, from German, "cloth," derived from Old German, bewimfen, meaning "to cover up" or "conceal") is a long, linen sash used as a binding for the Sefer Torah by Jews of Germanic origin. It is made from the cloth used to swaddle a baby boy at his bris milah, uniting the communal world of the synagogue with the individual's own life cycle.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).