THOSE WOMEN

Tehilim (psalms 45:14) says “kol kevudah bas melech penima” (the glory of the king’s daughter is within), which is taken to mean that women should be restricted in their sphere of activity and modest in dress, even to the extent that showing their hair in public is considered immodest, bordering on harlotry - a sentiment that Saul of Tarsus wholeheartedly supports.

But why DO Hhareidim make their wives look like Arab men in mourning?

It is written in Yeshayah (Isaiah) 15:2 "Ala ha Bayit ve divon ha bamot le vechi al Nebo ve al medeva, moav yeyelil be chol roshav karcha kol zakan gerua" (He has gone up to Beis and to Dibon, to the high places to weep - on Nebo, and Medeba, Moab wails like a banshee; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is shaven); in Yeremayah (Jeremiah) 16:6 it says “…e lo yispedu lachem velo yitgodad velo yikareach lachem”(…neither shall people lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them).

From this we know that shaving the head is a sign of mourning among the heathen in the land, and remember, we are instructed to NOT be like them.

Shaving one’s wife is open to any number of interpretations, all of them disturbing.

On the other hand, smooth, shiny, round, ooooh! Yes!