Questions tagged [hair-covering]
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Seeking Sources on the Russian Decree Regarding Jewish Dress Code
I am currently studying the later version of the Sefer “Daas Moshe VYisroel” and came across an interesting point in Rabbi Binyomin Rabinowitz's approbation letter. It states:
"הנה מנהג חבישת פאה ...
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What rabbis openly allowed/promoted wearing wigs?
When discussing wigs as a means of covering women's hair, I only heard that rabbis recognized them only aposteriori.
What prominent rabbis publicly allowed their use apriori?
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Where in the Tanakh is it derived that females are to cover their heads when praying?
Where in the Tanakh is it extrapolated that females are to cover their heads or hair when praying or reciting the name of HaShem?
I form this question upon reading the following: Women and girls ...
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Where in the Tanakh is the subject of head-covering or hair-covering for females taught or hinted?
Where in the Tanakh is the subject of head-covering or hair-covering for females taught or hinted?
(I have researched MiYodeya and the similar questions or answers are based on non-Tanakh passages. I ...
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Is one permitted to wear a sheitel made from the hair of a human corpse?
Larger question: Is one allowed to derive benefit from a dead body?
A couple of qualifiers:
obviously if there would be zilzul to the dead body in any form of course the answer would be no
medical ...
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Whose head covering takes precedence: mine or my wife's?
Suppose there's a hypothetical scenario where there's only one head covering available (e.g. a baseball hat) — should I wear it or should my wife?
Whose head covering would take precedence and why?
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Severity of covering the hair for women
I've heard Rabbi Yaron Reuben saying women who do not wear kisui rosh (putting the dispute of wigs as an exception), are like a woman who sinned before her husband. The Rabbi said that the kohen used ...
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Origin of exemption on covering hair for unmarried women
I've studied tons of various Poskim and websites discussing aspects of covering hair for women so I am familiar with the practical Halachot.
If I'm right, the default state is that all women (married ...
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Can an engaged woman cover part of her hair as a practice in tzniut?
When a woman becomes engaged, can she practice covering her hair a little bit at a time (both in the amount of time spent with hair covered as well as how much of the hair is covered), such as wearing ...
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Washing a Shaitel - Wig during the three weeks
This past week a lady told my wife that it is forbidden to wash a Shaitel - Wig during the three weeks. To the best of my knowledge I have never seen such a prohibition. Is there a source that ...
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For what purpose do married women need to cover their hair
I'm looking for a sourced reason for what purpose married women (as opposed to women who were never married) need to cover their hair. I have found that it is assumed that it is to make her less ...
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Does a Jewish woman who was married to a non-Jew and then divorced, need to cover her hair?
Does a Jewish woman who was a non-practicing Jew that married a non-Jewish man and had children together, then divorced him and she became Torah observant.... need to cover her hair?
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Hilchos niddah and hair [duplicate]
In regards to Niddah, does a woman need to cover her hair in her husbands presence (when she's a niddah)? Also would the answer be based on wether you hold a married woman's hair is ervah or tznius (...
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How long of a sheitel is too long?
Is there a length of sheitel that would be considered too long and inappropriate for a married woman to wear - either halachically or from a standpoint of proper moral behavior for a Jewish woman?
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Re-use of items used in service of another deity upon conversion
I am in the process of converting to Judaism from being a hellenic pagan (yes, there is a small revivalist movement, and yes, I am deeply grateful I was led away from that path) and I had a specific ...
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Tichel wearer moves to Sheitel covered community
If a woman who is custom to covering by means of Tichel/Mitpachat moves to a community in which it is custom for women to wear Sheitels, should she switch to Sheitels? If she attends a synagogue in ...
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Why is wearing a sheitel not marit ayin?
I would assume that the concept of marit ayin applies to married women's hair covering (outside the home) as much as to any other mitzvah. So why do our poskim allow* her to wear a sheitel--which, in ...
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Does a woman have to cover her head if she is bald?
The Gemara in Ketubot 72a outlines the issue of married woman covering her hair. This issue has been discussed already on this forum. Rav Yehuda Herzl-Henkin has wonderful and thorough treatment of ...
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Aren't wigs counterproductive?
As far as I know, married women have to cover their head for tzniut (modesty). A common way to do this is by wearing a wig. But sometimes the wig looks even prettier than the women's hair. Wouldn't ...
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Minhag no hair covering for Persian Jewish women?
My sister tells me her ultra-frum married Persian grad school housemate does not cover her hair and that this is their minhag. Can someone confirm this tradition and if so what are the outer signs (if ...
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Head covering a sign of being a bride of HaShem?
Bnei Yisrael’s relationship with HaShem is often described as a marriage; HaShem is the groom and Bnei Yisrael are His bride. See Shir HaShirim for an extended example. The Prophets frequently ...
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Can a woman uncover her hair for the sake of employment?
I am aware of many poseqim who hold that in order to get and hold a job, it is permissible for men to remove their kippoth during the interview and their workday.
Can a woman who badly needs ...
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Is there an authentic source for such a partial hair covering for women?
I'm aware that per 'Iqar HaDin (baseline Halakhah), Qitzur Shulhhan 'Arukh - Yalqut Yosef writes that a woman may reveal two finger-breadths of her hair (where her hair connects to her head) while ...
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Can the status of erwa change?
Can a body part which may reasonably br presumed to have the status of erwa for a particular woman ever lose that status?
Some examples are if a woman is widowed or divorced can she legally uncover ...
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Married women uncovering their hair in the presence of gentiles
Is there a halachic difference of a married women covering her hair in the presence of Jews or Gentiles? Even if you hold like the chasam sofer who says that it's Deoraisa?
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Does a married woman going through the conversion process need to cover her hair?
A married Jewish woman is required to cover her hair.
If a woman that is married is going through the conversion process does she have to cover her hair?
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Is a non-virgin permitted to cover her hair? [duplicate]
I have always heard that unmarried women, meaning virgins, do not have to cover their hair. Yet I have also heard that unmarried women who are not virgins should cover their hair. What sources support ...
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Does a Jewish woman married to a non-Jew need to cover her hair?
I know that Jewish women married to non-Jews do not need to go to mikvah (and indeed should not do so with a blessing). Is there any evidence suggesting that a woman married to a non-Jew does not have ...
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Why isn't covering the place where hair meets the head good enough for a Sheitel?
See Can a Sheitel be made out of one's own hair? where the question wonders whether a woman is allowed to wear her own detached hair as a Sheitel.
In Fred's answer, he quotes the Shiltei Giborim (...
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Practically speaking, how should I cover my hair?
I belong to a liberal community where married women do not cover their hair. But occasionally I visit other communities (generally Modern Orthodox or Lubavich) for Shabbat and I would like to fit in ...
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Do women need to cover their hair if they have had children without being married?
Do women need to cover their hair if they have had children without being married?
Some explanations for hair covering relate it to modesty in light of the supposed attractive power of hair, which ...
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Minhag for married women to cover their hair in bed
I know(1) there is a practice in Chabad for married women to wear a tichel in bed (i.e., with their husbands). I would not be surprised if this is the same in other Chasidic groups, if not in other ...
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Should a married woman cover her hair in the succah?
For women who do not cover their hair while in their own homes, should they cover it while in their own succah? (I.e. does the succah classify as the home for this purpose?)
Would it make a ...
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Doesn't the wide use of Sheitels among Orthodox Jewish women prove that hair no longer retains the erotic status that it once had?
In reading scores of halakhic material on the subject of kisui rosh le-nashim throughout the ages, I have found that there are essentially two views as to the nature of the obligation for a woman to ...
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Does a transparent hair-covering fulfil the halacha?
We learn the mitzvah of a married woman covering her hair from the verse in Bamidbar (5:18) וּפָרַע אֶת רֹאשׁ הָאִשָּׁה. The Talmud in various places expounds on the details.
While I am very aware ...
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Can a Sheitel be made out of one's own hair?
Suppose a married woman is able to create a Sheitel that is entirely made up of her own hair (detached, of course). Does that satisfy the requirement for covering her hair?
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Level of obligation of married women covering their hair
Does a married woman have to cover her hair based on a biblical commandment or a rabbinic decree?
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What are the different types of Shpitzlach?
Do shpitzels include some fake hair ? Are they always made with foam inside to imitate the hair?
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Hair coverings for unmarried women
Shulchan arch even Ezra 21 paragraph 2 states "Jewish women may not go out in the market place with uncovered head whether married or not" why is this law not followed today
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Satmar and head covering
I was looking pictures of the Satmar wedding and I found that some women where wearing a headscarf with no hair out and others where wearing a wig or a wig with a scarf.
Why is that ? What is the ...
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What does "p'ruath rosh" actually mean?
It says in the halakha that a married woman may not go out into the public market place with "p'ruath rosh."
I have heard that this means "with uncovered head," but this does not seem to match up ...
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Should I say the morning blessing on head covering even if I don't cover my head?
Should unmarried women--and all those who do not cover their heads for whatever reason--still say the morning blessing "otayr yisro-ayl b'siforo" ("Who crowns Israel with splendor"), referring to head ...
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Does a married woman have to cover her hair to make a bracha?
When making a bracha with shem u'malchut, one should not have erva (nakedness) exposed. For married women, their hair is considered to be erva. So does a woman who is married have to cover her hair ...
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Women and girls covering their heads when lighting candles
I'm not sure how widespread the following practice is, since, as a man - and even since I was a young boy - I have always taken little notice of other women and girls outside my immediate family as I (...
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Hair covering in photos
Another question asks whether pictures of erva are erva. My question assumes, for the sake of argument, that they are, and asks: May a married woman show photos of herself with her hair uncovered that ...
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Rabbi Soloveitchik's wife and hair coverings [closed]
I've heard from some that Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's wife didn't cover her hair. I haven't managed to find a source for this. If there is a source, what is it, and if it's true, what was her ...
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Unkosher sheitel's / wigs?
Is it permissible for a married woman to wear a wig if the hair was sacrificed to an idol or foreign deity? There is a temple in India, dubbed the "Richest temple in the World" where pilgrims shave ...
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Must a woman cover her hair during childbirth?
Does a woman need to cover her hair during childbirth or other major medical procedures?
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Why is hair sometimes considered *erva* (nakedness) but sometimes not?
Why do people say that the hair of a married woman is considered as nakedness, but not the hair of a single woman? Isn't hair just hair? What if a man grew his hair long - would it also be ...
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Sheitels or no sheitels - where is the halacha?
With very well respected Rabbis such as Rav Ovadia Yossef clearly stating that wigs (sheitels) are simply assur (forbidden) according to most poskim, while some other very well respected rabbis such ...
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