Discover Why We Cover

DISCOVER WHY WE COVER

Open Letter to Jewish Sheital Machers

My dear Jewish sisters, I have a story to share with you. Before I do so, please, you will need to take off your rose-tinted spectacles for a moment and replace them with MY SPECTACLES to understand and realize that there are serious problems in our frum community. Unfortunately, lack of clarity on the part of Sheitel Machers, Makeup Machers, and Jewish Fashion Machers, etc.. is causing many women to bring the accusing angel into their/our gate. And the DIN of HaShem. However, this is a good thing, because our tragedies give us a wake up call to better our ways.

Please allow me to share why I stated the above. You see: singing here "When I was small I could hear the voice of Hashem on Har Sinai. And I longed to say yes, I will do and obey, but I was trapped in a lie and could not escape. But all would be well because I knew that Hashem would bring me home. No matter how long my travels would take my soul knew where to run to. And now I'm home, Baruch Hashem I'm home. Living Torah everyday and longing for hagula. .... I am just one of many who have returned to the emes of Torah. For I obeyed His command שובו בני אדם Boruch HaShem פוקח עורים  המכין מצעדי גבר and so I sing this song of praise in thanks and gratitude because I am home."

You see dear listeners, I wasn't born a Yid. The Torah that our secular Jewish sisters and brothers run far away from is the Torah that I ran towards. I was a slave to my Yetzer Hora and I worshipped falsehoods, so when I see a dear sister that is dressing with clothing that clings to her body and therefore shows every nick and nanny - every curve - when she sits down her skirt goes over her knees, and such  dramatic makeup and long provocative sheitels - this truly breaks my heart for that foolish frum woman does not realize that this should not be! Have we forgotten what the niveum the prophets said about the frum women in their days?

The Torah anthology Yalkut ME'AM LO'EZ The Book of Yeshayahu/Isaiah 3 states.

I know what it is to have attention. I used to be a wanna be actress and model. I hide these pictures from our son. Everyone said I looked like Princess Diana but even more prettier - and yes, the falsehood of flattery had me lose the clarity of what was right and what was wrong! I dressed the part my sisters and this life and this way of dressing IS NOT EMES! Please do teshuva now - please do teshuva now - Run to remove the pictures of yourselves with tight clothes that show every nic and nanny of your body - stop wearing such bold makeup - stop going to weddings with skin tight long glittering gowns. Why  do you allow men to gaze on your body! This is not Emes! Actually, for what purpose are womem allowing their faces to be in these places in the first place. Do you not have emunah that HaShem can provide you money to psy the bills by word of mouth only? Why exploit yourselves? Mamma Rochel Would Never Do Such a Thing! PLEASE VIEW THIS POST NOT ON MOBILE VIEW BUT WEB VIEW TO SEE ALL VIDEO SELECTIONS!

Sheitel Mackers, please see the post The Hair Generation please be the one overturn the DIN of HaShem with the tragedies of famlies being destroyed by fire....Be the first to trim your sheitel to the top of you shoulders ie pixie... or better yet wear a beautiful scarf! You can reach so many jewish women and have the zcheus of dressing as a bas Yisroel should dress. The zchus of tipping the scale to bringing hageula with rachamim. JUST DO IT! Now this would be a great giveaway! Cutting sheitels for free or giving away beatiful scarves!  I closing, may HaShem bentch all of you wonderful women with gezunt, simchas, nachas, parnassah, and may we soon see  שיבנה בית המקדש במהרה בימינו

UPDATE: with comments from other websites

I highly suggest everyone also read the section (if not the entire book!) of Modesty: An Adornment for Life by Rabbi Falk. Rabbi Faulk brings the exact heterim for sheitals and explains in serious terms how most of the sheitels worn by the community (including myself, formerly) are completely ussur because there is NO heter for wearing a wig that cannot be clearly identified as such, including all of the reasoning behind the issur.

Essentially the idea that physically covering the hair is enough is false. The woman is supposed to be concealing her beauty for her husband, not putting herself on display and making herself attractive to outsiders and other men using someone else's hair instead of her own.

Whether or not you want to debate this psak (which in my humble is undebatable anyway) there is still the issue that all the real-hair wigs on the market are ussur anyway. The intent of the women buying these sheitels is to hide that they are covering their hair (probably without realizing it as such, that was me) and that intent is ussur - it's ussur to look like you are committing a sin. And there is still much more to the psak that the majority of sheitels today are ussur - again I suggest reading the book.

True tznius is being beautiful in an unassuming, non-attracting way, especially outside of the home. That is Dat Yehudis and the halacha follows from it. I personally received advice from a posek hador to donate my wig to Ezer Mizion who gave it to a young cancer patient and thus made a tikkun for the wig in its own way. I have never been happier looking presentable in public, but saving my beauty for my husband

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Howard Schranz
New York, New York
Hair is not just hair. Beautiful hair attracts men to women in a SEXUAL way. If a gorgeous wig attracts men's attention to the woman herself, there is indeed a SEXUAL element to this attraction. It is instinctual that both men and women crave attention from the opposite gender. Putting on a wig does NOT diminish that desire, but rather is often used to ENHANCE that desire.

Sara Kay
No disrespect, but you are missing the point of the mitzvah (commandment) when you insist that both the skirt and wig is nothing but a "barrier between the naked body and the rest of the world." You quite correctly stated that the purpose of tznuit is keep those areas of a woman's body that are considered "ervah" private. How do you reconcile that explanation with an apparently senseless "barrier" between skin and air? The point of the tznuit skirt and the head covering is to promote a sense of privacy and self-respect in the Jewish woman, and it therefore follows that any attempt to "outwit" the mitzvah (by covering skin with skin looking material or wearing natural hair on top of hair) indicates a deeply flawed understanding of its purpose.

With a true understanding of the mitzvah of covering the hair, it is difficult to justify those wigs that are as natural/beautiful or even more so than natural hair. All that said, I do not judge those who wear them. However, I find it upsetting when it is passed off as kosher

Sura Beily, Jerusalem Um the examples at the bottom dont really make sense. For instance either wear a skirt that makes your bottom look more attractive or walk around skirtless are not the only two options. Dressing tzinus also means not wearing tight clothing. So the skirt shouldnt be so tight that it makes your bottom more attractive. Also it is not tzinus to wear the same color shirt as your skin tone since it can make a man look twice to see whats going on here. As far as the wig there is a problem of people being able to see a difference between a wig and real hair. If it looks like real hair or even better then it can seem you dont cover your hair at all. Also i have seen women that looked 10 times more attractive aftsr marriage because of their beautiful stylish wig which is not good. To walk arou d with this long beautiful flowing wig that makes men look. Thats why in more orthodox circles even before marriage you should have shoulder length hair so its not so eye catching

The Hair Generation

WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH THIS ADVERTISEMENT FOUND IN the Jewish weekly "Link" of Boro Park? 

Do you see it? "Designed to look feel and act like REAL hair!"

 The Baal Shem Tov witnessed the early stirrings of the Haskalah (Enlightenment) and the anti-Torah movements that it spawned. He saw large numbers of Jews abandon their commitment to Torah and begin imitating the ways of their non-Jewish neighbors. He was deeply pained ....Heaven revealed to him that those straying souls were the "hair" of the komah sheleimah. And just as human hair is destined to be cut off and cast away, so would these "hair souls be cut off .......[one must read this book to put this in the right context] In the mystical teachings of Kabbalah, the evil forces known as kelipos attach themselves to free-flowing human hair. 

This is one of the reasons for the closely cropped hair favored by many Jewish men and boys, and also explains why girls and women who have never been married customarily bind or braid their hair. Additionally, according to Kabbalah, the halachah שער באשה ערוה which requires married women to cover their hair completely, is related to the attraction that free flowing hair has for the kelipos. 

Moreover, the prophet Yechezkel instructs the Kohanim to "crop their hair very close". Another Gemara )Tannis 17a= requires the king to take a close haircut daily; the Kohen Gadol weekly; and other Kohanim at least once every thirty days. 

Long hair becomes a favorite nesting spot for the impure kelipos that, as emissaries of the Satan, seek to tempt people to sin. The kelipos find characteristics of hair described here very appealing: long hair is made up of cells that have lost their vitality and the kelipos feel most comfortable around souls that have lost their spiritual vitality; long hair is devoid of feeling and the kelipos seek the company of people who are devoid of spiritual sensations; long hair is destined to be cut or torn away from its roots and the goal of the kelipos is to sever Jewish people from their spiritual roots. ....These "hair souls" - because they are in the grips of strong kelipos, their misdeeds and the falsehoods that form the foundation of their day-to-day lives can become weapons in the arsenal of the Satan in his never ending quest to drag down other Jewish souls. As a result, mingling with them and learning their alien ways can cause serious harm to the spiritual strivings of observant Jews. .... pg 386,390, and 392 SACRED SOIL

BELOW RABBI MENASHE IS A VIDEO FROM A FRUM SHEITEL STORE

 Rabbi Ya'aqob Menashe speaks on this all important subject of wigs, scarves and hats in a most endearing manner. Is a scarf better? Is a wig better? Scarves, hats, wigs, sheitels, tichels. Preferred or allowed? Sephardi and Ashkenazi.

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Your Wife's Real Hair Sheitel

The following Five Major poskim recently issued a statement forbidding ALL NATURAL HAIR sheitlach! Boruch HaShem! Let us return to HaShem and do away with Avoda Zara from our camp! SEE LETTER AND PICTURE HERE Rabbi Chaim Meir Halevi Vosner, Rabbi and Head of the Rabbinical Court, Zichron Meir Rabbi Sariel Rosenberg, Rabbi and Chief Rabbinical Justice, Bnei Brak Rabbi Yehuda Sillman, Rabbi and Head of the Rabbincial Court, Bnei Brak Rabbi Shimon Baadani, member of the Council of Torah Sages Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Karp, Dayan and Posek, Southern Hill, Modiin I wrote on this topic in January of 2016!

Let It Be Known

....that I want to be part of the Mitzvah. 

Now it came to pass when he drew closer to the camp and saw the calf and the dances, that Moses' anger was kindled, and he flung the tablets Square, Not Round from his hands, shattering them at the foot of the mountain. [Ki Tisa 32:19]

Binyamin closes by calling once again for everyone to do real teshuvah and return to Hashem completely. Women - throw away the wigs - Oh, I updated this post do take a peak., wash off the make-up, dress modestly,....

Are we going to greet Moshiach looking like a raccoon?

LAST WEEK THERE WAS a connection from the parshah to the story of Purim through the clothing of the Kohen Gadol. This week the connection to Purim is the mitzvah with which the parshah begins, Machtzis HaShekel, the half-shekel collected for each Jew for the census:

Emuna provides genuine clarity; a ​higher spiritual sensitivity, ​a ​reason for all events and a solution to one’s difficulties. Emuna brings a person to ‘see’ what he originally believed in principle. A great reward to living a life of emuna is attaining a tangible awareness of the presence of G-d. One of the biggest values in learning and living a life of emuna is reaching a place of inner composure and well-being which comes as a result of knowing that there is a G-d who loves us and is intimately involved in every aspect of our lives. The s​​hift to living a life of emuna needs to be taught​ and practiced daily. It is for this purpose the Daily Dose of Emuna was created. It is my genuine hope that you will develop emuna vision by learning Emuna together with the thousands who have already begun.

UPDATES: Here is a link to yet another letter, this one from Daniel Pinner. An op-ed by Brooklyn-based Yehuda-and-Shomron activist Robin Ticker: Stop Slandering Hilltop Youth and Let Meir Ettinger Go
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WHAT ELSE CAN I DO (to be part of the mitzvah)?

PROTEST: You can go here to sign a petition that will go to Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon. You can look for others as well.


EDUCATE YOURSELF: Read all you can about the Hilltop Youth and lifestyle. There’s plenty of negative commentary elsewhere; here are two positive articles so far: Kumi Ori | The Baladim | More are coming. If you can, visit them. See for yourself. Be sure to wear your hiking clothes and boots!