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- Title
Hair Covering for Single Women: A New Reading of Mizraḥi Halakhic Rulings.
- Authors
Fuchs, Ilan
- Abstract
A central feature in the lives of observant Jewish women is hair covering. Head covering is part of the prescribed religious garb of observant Jews, both male and female, but it has been contextualized in different ways on the basis of gender. For women, the usual justification for hair covering has to do with modesty, and it is also taken as a sign that the woman is married. This article deals with a different justification found in a number of responsa, particularly by Mizraḥi rabbis, that is not gender-based: yir'at shamayim (fear of God). In this context, I suggest the use of hair covering as a tool for empowerment.
- Subjects
JEWISH women; SINGLE women; RELIGIOUS behaviors; FEAR of God; JEWISH law
- Publication
Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues, 2012, Issue 23, p35
- ISSN
0793-8934
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2979/nashim.23.35