Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Hair Covering - Head Covering

"Headcovering for the observant Jewish woman (Introduction to a series on headcovering for the Christian Woman)"

This looks like the beginning of an interesting series from "Father Rick Lobs' Eclectic and Eccentric Blog". Here's the introduction to this introduction:

We are going to go where angels fear to tread. For those who choose to follow the series we will explore the issue (or non-issue) of the appropriateness of women covering their heads in worship. I believe they should. Its not a hill I am prepared to die on to be sure - but I think they should.

So, let us begin by asking, "Why do observant Jewish women cover their hair with a hat or a wig?"

This blog includes the short YouTube video from "Jew in the City" explaining the reasoning behind Jewish women's hair covering - which I have seen before and find it very interesting and informative. Please check it out at the title link above.

EDIT: Click here for part 1 , and part 2 , and part 3 of this series.

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*** Please also, Christian ladies, read Sandi's post today at "Headcoverings: For Me? :Recent Headcovering Experiences". Be encouraged.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I just don't understand this 'wig' thing... When you cover your hair with 'fake' hair you miss the point of being covered. Covering is sign for angels and for people too. How will other people know that you are covered if you don't tell them? They cannot see this. But when you put piece of cloth on your head every one know.

LisaM at ThoseHeadcoverings said...

Good points, Natasa. I have read many discussions on this from the Jewish point of view, and women who don't wear wigs but do cover use very sound reasoning, I think, while it does seem that those wearing wigs are merely holding to "the letter of the law". The creepy guy that she described in the video was still creepy to her even though her hair was "covered" - he was still actually seeing "her hair" (as she explained, it looked just like her natural hair).