Sometimes rabbonim speak from personal prejudices or opinions that are NOT necessarily Torah mandates, and that’s where the problem emerges. I know I mentioned once that a bunch of mikvah attendants were speaking with a rov to get a consensus on how to deal with the issue of women who came in with nail polish that was difficult to fully remove. Instead of addressing the shailah that was being asked, his immediate response was, “What do frum women need to be wearing nail polish for?” That might be his personal view of cosmetics in general and nail polish in particular, but that is not a Torah mandate to refrain from polishing the nails. This is surely not an isolated example.
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