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This opinion has no direct connection to the Halachic issue. I am simply expressing 50 years of frustration, anger, incredibiilty and hopelessness how much time, money, attention and vapidness our Haredi culture devotes to the search for the most non-wig looking wig in the universe. We are the hopeless victims of a fashion that has zero connection to our Mesora, to our values and to the service of Hashem. If I could be paid 1 dollar an hour for the tens thousands of hours my wife and married daughters spend on the phone in constant consultation and running around town adjusting: baby hair, tints, lace?, adding curls, Indian hair, falls, sewins, designers, Ich Ves Vos, I would be the biggest Gvir on the planet. LADIES is this why Hashem chose us as a holy nation? Did you ever see a 75 year old woman spend $3500 or more to try to look like she is 50 ? Who is she fooling? It doesn’t work .. She looks 75 with a completely inappropriate wig plopped on her head. Is there any brave Ashkenazi lady out there ready to defy the trend and put on a Tichel for her next wedding? Maybe she”ll even see that her kids and her husband are finding a new connection to Avodas Hashem due to her new found modesty.
Serendipity” Your level of calmness, inner peace, happiness etc. would be enhanced by NOT getting upset and triggered by how other yidden spend their money in ways that are totally within the confines of halacha but violate your sense of what is “appropriate”. If your Rav showed up at the beis medrash in a moderneshe blue suit would that also offend you? If spending money on a sheitel that makes them happy, why shouldn’t the 75 YO woman do so if she has the funds. Would you be that offended if a Rebbe purchased a $5,000 shtreimlach or a $800 Borselino? Chill out.
I know many women (of all ages and backgrouds) who are rejecting the wig in favor or tichels.
In fact I know a youngish woman (in her 40s) who wore a tichels to her childs wedding recently. She looked dignified, modest and married.
Many others are doing the same and recognizing the sheitel madness of today.
Hashem most certainly did not intend for married Jewish women to be covering their hair in this manner and unfortunately the wigs are making a massive Chillul Hashem. Wigs are all the rage in Hollywood now and actresses and celebrities wear them all the time- certainly not for modesty. It is a total joke to be covering hair with someone else’s gorgeous “hair” for “modesty” and pay thousands for this sheker. Let’s call a spade a spade- Jewish women are wearing wigs today for vanity and honor, soley for fashion and beauty. Such a distortion of an important commandment whose sole purpose is to elevate the modesty level of the married Jewish woman. The wigs today do the exact oppositePeople who said to where sheitels said a lot of Tehillim for people not to go to the Uray Mikla (that you do not by mistake kill anyone). And they paid a lot of money to Hatzalah.
Bravo! Thank you for speaking up. (Now expect to be hammered by the pro-pritzus crowd.)
To Serendipity
You’re preaching to the choir. I could go on for hours. Pesach vacations, Yeshiva week. Orthodox Judaism is Gashmius with a side order of Daf Yomi. The Yetzer hora has taken full advantage of the wealth in the frum community to take us away from Hashem. Great post. It should do very well.
Maran Harav Elyashv ztL already bemoaned the situation, many years ago.
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