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Why do married Jewish woman cover their
hair? In traditional Judaism,
you may have noticed
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>> that once
a woman gets married,
they cover their hair.
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>> They cover their hair with all different
types of coverings. Some with kerchiefs,
[music] some with hats,
some with a wig,
but [music] it is covered. They would
not leave their homes into the public
arena
without covering their hair.
This tradition became a law
thousands of years ago,
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>> and that is the rules and laws of
modesty.
Modesty is [music]
very important in Judaism.
Modesty, the way a woman dresses and the
way a man dresses, [music] requires a
level of respect of yourself, a respect
of your family,
respect of your marriage, and respect of
God. [music] In Judaism, we are taught
when we wake up and we spend our day,
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>> we are always in the presence of God.
Now, how would you dress in the presence
of God?
Wouldn't you dress respectfully, as if
[music] you were standing in front of a
king,
as if you're standing in front of some
giants?
You would respect them by dressing
dignified in [music]
a modest way.
So, modesty is actually a law in Judaism
that men and women
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>> are to dress in a modest way. It's very
interesting when we look back in
history, in [music] the days when the
Jews were enslaved in Egypt, there were
four things that stood different than
the
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>> Egyptians. No matter what they've been
through, 200 years of bitter slavery,
they did not change their names,
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>> they did not change their language,
they did not change the clothes.
In other [music] words,
that the way we dress
is the way that dignifies who we are.
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>> And this is the reason why the laws of
modesty is not only from when you
[music] are born until you go pass away,
but as you grow in life, [music] there
are different laws of modesty. When a
girl and a woman gets married and they
embrace
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>> their spouse in a union,
which they then become a one body,
because a wedding is not just a union of
two people, it's actually a reunion
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of two souls that were once in heaven
together that were split up to two to
two different bodies and now [music]
they are reunited.
The marriage is a very intimate
marriage. [music]
The intimacy of marriage
belongs only to each other.
Once a woman gets married, [music]
their modesty, their beauty
belongs only to their husband.
Our sages have taught us
the beauty [music]
of a woman
is in their hairstyle, is in the hair.
And it is for that reason that a woman
reserves her hair
only for her husband.
So, when a woman goes outside [music]
into the public,
it's not for anyone to see.
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>> She reserves her total beauty for her
husband. And that is why traditional
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>> observant woman would cover their hair
after the marriage.
It's to enhance, into embellish, and
[music] to preserve the love, the
intimacy between her and her husband.
When her husband knows that she reserves
her true beauty only for him, [music]
then she knows when she's outside, she
dresses modesty. And a traditional
Jewish woman does dress modesty, but
they wear clothes that cover the knees,
that cover the elbows, because her
beauty belongs at home,
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>> not outside there. The beauty of a
Jewish woman is their soul, and that one
can see through the eyes. They don't
need to see any other part of the
woman's body other than her eyes
and her face [music] to see who they
really are.
And that is the reason why traditional
[music] Jewish women cover their hair.
God bless you. God loves you.
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