Reply To: Makeup for 3-day Yom Tov

Absolutely it’s a two-way street. People implied that I am stopping Moshiach from coming by wearing makeup. Can you see why this would bother me?

Oomis, in response, brought up a very relevant point- it often feels that we are constantly being lectured on tznius, while men don’t run ANY campaigns for sinas chinam, etc. How many kol koreis are there that apply to men and not women vs the other way? Let us learn the halachos that apply to us and we will follow it. There are 613 mitzvos and tznius is not one of them.

I LOVE tznius, it always spoke to me and I have both taught it and learned it, and be’ezras Hashem practice it. This is not a personal thing. But I am bothered by the implications of this, not only on YWN, but from my male siblings who BH are good boys, encouraging an attitude of boys who just have to be “good enough” while women have to change and not focusing on working on themselves. As you very aptly said, it’s a two-way street.

Obviously we all have free choice. The point here is to look at MY free choice – not judge that of the other person’s. I am not going to lecture you on how many hours a day you should learn. Don’t lecture women on tznius and claim they are not bringing Moshiach because they want to look good on Yom Tov.

Thank you.

*tries very hard to remain calm*