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Sheitel: Beauty in the Hidden.
Although the practice is mentioned by the Talmud, it’s not entirely clear when a Jewish consensus emerged that halakhah obligated married women to cover their hair. In the Middle Ages and even after, some rabbis tried to ban the practice of wearing a wig for this purpose—yet they lost the battle. Simi Horwitz reviews a new documentary about the sheitel, as these wigs are known in Yiddish:
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Although the practice is mentioned by the Talmud, it’s not entirely clear when a Jewish consensus emerged that halakhah obligated married women to cover their hair. In the Middle Ages and even after, some rabbis tried to ban the practice of wearing a wig for this purpose—yet they lost the battle. Simi Horwitz reviews a new documentary about the sheitel, as these wigs are known in Yiddish:
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