Why don't you cover your hair?

Platinum Member Joined: Sep 20 2004 Posts: 17151

Those married posters who don't cover their hair in public - why don't you?

Executive Member Joined: Dec 01 2006 Posts: 270

Is this question being asked in the same spirit as in, ''those of you who don't drink coffee, why don't you?" ?

Gold Member Joined: May 04 2006 Posts: 1722

none of your beeswax my dear 8)

wait, I have a question, why is the sky blue?

Platinum Member Joined: Sep 20 2004 Posts: 17151

This has been discussed quite heatedly in the past with people stating how wrong we are and how we are going against halacha and I don't feel like going through that again. Let's just say that maybe it was because of attitudes like those posters that was one of the deciding factors for me to stop covering my hair
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motek,why dont you lock this thread?

It has happened that I forgot to put a haircovering on and dh forgot to remind me. It has happened that I was feeling very unwell and it was very hot outside (not an excuse, but that's the reason).
It has happened maybe 10 times in a year of marriage.

Now, as I said in another thread, there are communities where even frum women feel they can not cover because their rabbis said it was ok - I don't know which one caused the other, and Im' not relying on these opinions personally although I know people who do, but there are Moroccan, Polish, Lithuanian and Persian sources (old ones), and recently some American (YU?) and German rabbis who said the same. Generally, the same ones okayed pants and/or short sleeves.
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"It's all cultural, disagree respectfully", me

I had a shidduch with a boy who said it was ok to wear pants but not eat non cholov yisroel or uncover more than a tefach. I thought it was interesting. He was from German modern Orthodoxy. Not a good catch for me as I don't want to wear pants or keep CY. Twisted Evil

Posted: Thu, Apr 12 2007, 9:06 am Post subject:

for 10 years been there, done that, didn't work for me ... I felt ugly, and hot and mental ... and not myself ... so you got one real answer here ...
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Green, all of your reasons apply to me as well. I couldn't stand it.

Posted: Thu, Apr 12 2007, 9:34 am Post subject:

I can�t stand it either but then again, I can�t stand getting my period either, so should I make it stop?

Posted: Thu, Apr 12 2007, 9:52 am Post subject:

Platinum Member Joined: Jan 01 2006 Posts: 48223

I'm also a little surprised that a frum woman wouldn't keep this and I'm happy that Motek asked.

For example - what about Yom Kippur? That's uncomfortable, but we all fast. Why is haircovering - or the lack thereof - different?

Posted: Thu, Apr 12 2007, 9:54 am Post subject:

some people actually take pills to avoid getting their period in case you didn't know withhumor...

Posted: Thu, Apr 12 2007, 9:55 am Post subject:

DUH you can take a kerchief and cover� ok withhumor shut up now�

Green and Brooklyn, I totally understand!
The only thing I can stand is a bandana. Because I can forget it when it's on my head.
A hat makes me feel weird as soon as I'm not outside, a tichel makes me feel old (no offense to anyone, that's just me), a sheitel is awfully hot but next best thing after bandana, a beret is cute but weird inside too, I personally find snoods very not elegant. So yeah, bandana.

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