I still have yet to hear a rational argument as to why it would be a problem to wear a burqua, just a lot of “content-free outrage”.
yekke2:
the source of such ideas most probably comes from the wrong place
Like Tamar?
וַיִּרְאֶהָ יְהוּדָה וַיַּחְשְׁבֶהָ לְזוֹנָה כִּי כִסְּתָה פָּנֶיהָ – בראשית לח, טו
סוטה דף י’ עמוד א’ – משום דכסתה פניה חשבה לזונה? א”ר אלעזר, שכסתה פניה בבית חמיה, דא”ר שמואל בר נחמני א”ר יוחנן כל כלה שהיא צנועה בבית חמיה זוכה ויוצאין ממנה מלכים ונביאים
We see that the fact the Tamar covered her face is considered praiseworthy by Chazal.
RY:
Burquas are forced.
Source?
WTP:
at some level there is a vibe that what they are doing is superior, ergo what you are doing is inferior. They may not mean it that way
See, that’s exactly what I was referring to when I said “Personally, I’m secure enough in my own Judaism that I’m not perturbed if somebody is doing something “frummer” than I am.”
It could very well be some of that the Burqa ladies think that I am inferior to them. (Although the same could be said for any other religious practice – do you think some of the members of the settler movement consider you to be inferior to them?) But I don’t care, because I’m convinced enough of the validity of my own practices that I am unperturbed if somebody else views them as inferior or illegitimate.
WTP:
particularly disturbed when you feel that someone distorts yiddishkeit
Care to explain *why* this is a distortion of yiddishkeit?