Reply To: Sheitels

Mazal, there is something that you are missing. Where does halacha state that your head covering has to look like one? There must be a halachic source that says that in order to enforce this. I have really gross hair – even straw looking sheitels are nicer than my hair. Does that mean I cannot wear a sheitel at all because its an improvement?

I think we need to define what “Seiar beisha ervah” actually means. Because to my understanding, its the hair on a woman’s head that is ervah and it needs a head covering. Why should someone else’s hair be ervah on MY head?? Torah is usually logical about this, so if Torah is not being logical, I would need to see a source (Joseph, can you provide a source? You are usually good at that).

As to fashion – halacha does not dictate that you should be dressed in bad fashion. Just because it was in style 20 years ago and not now makes it ok? EVERYTHING we wear nowadays is based on the fashion of the goyim – otherwise we would be back to wearing long robes and sandals like in the desert.

German Jews used to be made fun of for wearing short jackets like the rest of the Germans – nowadays EVERYONE wears them. Go to BMG in Lakewood – all the men are wearing suits, the same kinds that German Jews were ridiculed previously for.