Why we cover our hair as Jewish Women
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- I think theres a lot of resentment, confusion and unknown when it comes to hair covering so here we have it all laid out and clear for you. If you have any questions I did not answer comment below and I will try to find the answer for you!
I'm not Jewish and I don't cover my hair, but it disturbs me to read the negative and disrespectful comments regarding this matter. Whether a woman chooses to cover her hair is no one's business but her own. Kayla is an adult who is able to make her own choices, and we should respect her choices, just as we want others to respect our choices.
Thank you Kayla for generously sharing your life, faith, and culture with your viewers. I really appreciate it and look forward to more videos.
thank you!
I am not Jewish but what is the point of covering of hair with a wig? Honestly, I do not get it. It does not make a woman generally more modest just to put a different wig on her head. Pretty much the same like changing the hair colour.
Great video on the subject. The woman I have been matched with looks forward to covering her hair and wants to get all kinds of scarves for after our marriage starts.
I think your wig is very wild. So it’s ok with wild real/synthetic hair in a wig but not acceptable with wild real hair. No offence it seems you’re kidding yourself.
thats a valid opinion of yours. thank you for sharing :)
Great vid. Sharing it with all my friends
thank you! I appreciate that!
Honey, you do NOT have to cover your beautiful hair. Stand firm with your husband NOT to follow "oral" Torah. Your future depends upon this.
my husband is not the reason I cover my hair. I make that quite clear in this video :)
@@questioningtheanswersThank you for your reply and explaining in the video.
Hey Kayla great video.question-you said a husband cant make kiddush without you covering your hair ,does that apply to all brachot? for example your sitting at home alone having dinner can he make a bracha with your hair uncovered ?
Great question! He can’t make any Brachot looking at your hair if it’s loose and not tied up in any way. However a short Bracha he can just look away or look down. For Kiddush which is longer it’s not so respectful to make him worry about it the whole time. So to be nice I was saying you can tie it up or cover.
Tying up wouldnt be enough. Hair must be covered. I suppose the only room for leniency would be a tefach that R Moshe brings for exactly this purpose. NOT to even say that this is lchatchila how hair should be covered but bdieved a man may make a bracha in front of it. No basis to just putting on a ponytail.
Great video, thank you. I understand the idea of community and societal norms but what about changing said norms. Technically would it be possible, within the framework of halacha, for a community of women to come together and say "we took this on but it is too hard and now we want to cover our hair differently". (I feel that halacha is overwhelmingly a male domain and the males don't care enough about the pain and annoyance of covering your hair.)
I think it would be possible but it would have to be an entire community- and that community would have to be accepted by the larger jewish community as valid. In general these changes usually come about in much more gradual slow ways over years and years that are not so drastic. Please note- I said I "Think" I am not entirely sure that it is possible to consciously decide to overnight change a minhag.
@@questioningtheanswers I'm not sure I understand why a gradual approach would potentially be more acceptable. This just sounds like a slippery slip which is something we would normally not endorse. Let me go listen to your next video about halacha vs minhag :)
@@ChayaGoldman lol I hear that. The thing is that societies naturally shift and grow and evolve. That’s the exact reason none of this was set in stone so it can adapt and survive the changes of the world. The beauty of Torah and Halacha is that it’s always changing evolving and adapting. And in tzniut in particular the societal Norms really set what we do and nature dictates that societies shift naturally. But it’s not a decision.
Whether you can get rid of a minhag is extremely rare and would need extreme reason. How would you be able to get rid of a mitzvah/halacha?
@@questioningtheanswers no no no societal norms never change halacha.....could be they influence minhag bec various minhagim may evolve based on communal need, but halacha never changes......just to take an ex from tnius even though can take an ex from anywhere......the concept of covering through knees and through elbows and until (but not incl) neck, and hair is halacha. No one may make a bracha in front of anything uncovered as such......lower leg for ex is a chumra and may not be mekubal in many communities as needed to be covered AT ALL. Of course there is no need to take on chumros but minimal halacha itself does not change.
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Only the ultra-Orthodox women cover their hair.The overwhelming majority of Jewish women who are not ultra-Orthodox do not cover their hair .The same goes with mixed dancing.The dumbest part of the no mixed dancing policy of the Orthodox is that it applies to married couples at a wedding,married couples who have intimate sexual relations but they cannot dance with each other.How stupid is that,only a Jew who truly has a "Goyische Kop" would think that this policy makes any sense whatsoever.This is why the great majority of Jewish people reject Orthodoxy.We think that this stricture is truly laughable.
This is very disrespectful to your fellow jew. I don’t appreciate that on my channel. We respect and love all Jews here.
I watched the trailer for Netflix Unorthodox. I thought every Jewish woman wore a head covering because they shaved their hair off. Watching from the UK.
thats a very small community within the ultra orthodox community- which is a small part of the Jewish nation. also, that show had a lot of misinformation.
What do men do to show they are married?
nothing, we dont cover our hair to show we are married- we uncover it to show we are single
why is this covering of hair not practiced in Israel
it very much is in many communities :)
This is strictly a matter of custom!! This was never a universal minhag,but grew out of the custom of the times. If Judaism is focused on women’s hair , our tradition needs to wise up to the 21st Century !! I in our time if showing your hair causes sexual arousal in the opposite sex,I would point out to a sexual dysfunction needing professional help!!
please watch the video, as this is not the reason we cover, and I made that quite clear. we tie our hair up because the torah tells us to and we follow the torah, we do it the way our community does it because judaism is built on communal norms.
What about the piercing on your nose?
What about it?
What about it?
ב"ה
וַתֹּאמֶר אֶל הָעֶבֶד מִי הָאִישׁ הַלָּזֶה הַהֹלֵךְ בַּשָּׂדֶה לִקְרָאתֵנוּ וַיֹּאמֶר הָעֶבֶד הוּא אֲדֹנִי וַתִּקַּח הַצָּעִיף וַתִּתְכָּס.
ותקח = 514 = דוד שר = דרשי = בבשרי = המלכה אוהבת
הצעיף = 975 = העץ = קרקע שרה = שלום לדה = שלום גאלה
ותתכס = 886 = בהתגלמות = מתולדות = אנחנו כל היקום
ותקח הצעיף ותתכס = 2375 = 377 = 1376 = שבעה = השבע = עדן שרה אמנו
You cover your head for exactly the same reason that some Jewish women become agunot - because you don't know how to read Hebrew on the level of a Jewish woman and you accept the far lower level of interpretation of Jewish men. What is being talked about there is the Mothers of Israel as the Pillars of the Creation - not putting a shmatta on your head.
So this is no different than islam. Muslim women have to cover their hair for the same reason. They use a headscarf.
I cannot speak for how a Jewish woman sees this. I am a theologian though. I would strongly assert that it is completely different. All religions are not the same. Just as all political parties are not the same. There is a big difference between a fascist party and an ordinary socially democratic one. There may be some common themes, like education, but they mean different things depending on the gestalt, or how the subject is integrated into the whole. The G-d of the Muslims is not the same as the G-d of the Jews and Christians. The most important thing about all our practices is the relationship we have with G-d. If the practice is different in terms of the gestalt, and the object of our devotion is also different, them covering the hair also has different meanings.
As Catholic nuns, we (those who respect the traditional habit) cover our hair in part to symbolise our removal from the world. We are _in_ the world, but not _of_ the world. Scripture says the hair of a woman is beautiful, sensual, and the crown of womanhood. Nuns have turned away from that to focus completely on G-d (and my cat!).
Some Catholic women cover their hair for Mass. The simplest way of understanding the practice is that which is sacred is usually covered. Women hold the responsibility of the sacred feminine. The gestalt part is different between Catholic nuns and married Jewish women, but our G-d is the same. Nuns and Jewish women are both looking at the same thing. We just relate in different ways according to our position in life. Shalom.
@@sisterkerry Let's face the fact that like language, religions are from the same root. You cannot deny that the bible, quaran and thorah are in fact the same book but changed. Humans tend to change things in order to proove that what they think is right. As for the scarf or wigs, they wear it for the same reason as nuns: to be modest and not display their outer female charachteristics.
@@bmwforlife6951 I most certainly do deny that Scripture and the Qur'an are different books and do not share a root in any meaningful way. Muhammad did have access to Judeo-Christian Scriptures, but did not have anyone to explain them to him. To understand a religious book you have to understand the impact it had on the lives of the people who lived their lives by it. You must make a study of Islamic history. I don't mean some WOKE book. I mean, proper study. I could run some basic information by you, but my comment would be taken down so there's no point. Truth doesn't sit well with today's ideologues. In addition, you would have to read the Qur'an and other sacred Islamic writings. These would have to be properly understood.
You touch on a common criticism of contemporary thought.
"Humans tend to change things in order to prove that what they think is right."
This is moral relativism. The idea that there is no objective right and wrong. This comes from looking around the world to other cultures and seeing that they hold different ideas of right and wrong and hold them with as much, or more conviction than we do. This essentially boils moral truth down to the degree of passion in which they are held. That reckoning makes Stalin's Soviet Union more "true" than Western civilisation. This disregards the fact that communism wherever it has landed has failed. It has led to greater poverty, oppression, and mass slaughter - even in times of recent history, with educated, advanced culture. The death toll of 20th century communism is conservatively estimated at 100 million.
The Catholic Christian Church created and physically built Western civilisation after the fall of Rome in the 5th Century AD. This is the most successful civilisation the world has ever known. There is no doubt of the Jewish part in this. Christianity's founder was Jewish, as was his mother, all the Apostles and disciples. Christianity is born from Judaism.
The Judeo-Christian Scriptures are validated by the success of their practical application.
Other places around the world have adherence to religious books that cause enormous violence. Not as one-off unfortunate clashes of religion with historical and political situations, often happening centuries ago. The violence is prescribed in writing and has played itself out consistently from its inception to the present day.
I will only speak for Catholics. We believe in G-d, and His Great Commandments that we inherited from Judaism. This is at the heart of the two great Faiths.
I do not believe G-d was wrong.
Concepts such as freedom of speech, due legal process, and democracy come from the Western root. Other places do not regard these things as of a moral good.
Nuns do not wear our habits and veils to "not display outward female characteristics." I will come to modestly in a minute. Nuns are not denying we are female; nor are we supressing our femaleness. We have a view of femaleness that is not defined by sexuali*y. Our habits honour femaleness. It is a femaleness that belongs to G-d entirely. It is a womanhood one might read about in Proverbs 31.
Modesty is something theoretically that should be part of every woman's understanding of honouring her womanhood. I recognise a resurgence of modesty among Jewish and Christian women. Modesty is not ugliness. Why would we want to make ugly what G-d has made naturally beautiful? This would be to dishonour ourselves and the G-d who made us. However, the world has reduces women to s*x objects. Our value is concentrated in this. There is also a whole raft of beliefs that emanate from this dishonourable idea of woman. I hope to see more blossoming conversations between Jewish and Christian women to see how we might rework modesty for the 21st century. I am learning a lot from Jewish women online. I am inspired by Shabbat, modesty, head covering, and many other things.
Jews and Muslims have lots of commonalities , they also all come from Abraham
correct, islam and judaism have a lot in common, and this is one of those things, there are fundamental differences in the religions even in the way we keep this law, but it is similar