Reply To: Sheitels

Gila, I dont know if you ever learnt the source of hair coverings, but the way you state it is not so simple. A woman’s own hair is ervah – that doesnt neccesarily mean that a sheitel of hair (no matter how real looking ) is ervah. I remember learning that some people even say its ok to cut your own hair off to make a sheitel, because its only when its attached to you that its ervah.

Joseph, even if its only the last ten years or so, ten years is a long time to wait to make a psak on something this big!!! If the community started eating some sort of treif, would he wait ten years??