Reply To: Isn't this YESHIVA world?

PBA: You’re being inane. Nearly all yeshiva bochurim today have beards, and he might have even had semicha by then

You have clearly never met a yeshiva bochur. Almost no yeshiva bochurim have beards, and most girls are somewhat taken aback when they date one who does.

You’re also irrational. There is a huge difference between Daas Moshe (objective moral truth based on Torah) and Daas yehudis (halachos, minhagim, and dinnim that are constructed based on the practices of certain societies and cultures). If you don’t think this is a chashuv difference, you shouldn’t be making any statement s about this issue. Why can’t you understand this?

I understand that. It isn’t relevant to this discussion. This discussion is about whether married women are obligated to cover their hair, and every posek holds they are–including the one who wrote the leading article being melamed zchus on how they might not have to.

I’m very proud of you for knowing so much, and I’m sure your mother is also. If that is the validation you are looking for–you have it. But kindly stop sidetracking the discussion.

I’ll bring it back on track. In response to your argument that covering hair is a new thing: I don’t care if people 100 years ago did it or didn’t or if it is new or old; it is definitely the halacha and nobody argues.

And yes, I have read Solovetchik’s article, and it is cute and has a couple of decent points, but it is hardly the end-all on the subject that you think it is. If you are one of those people who reads one academic article and thinks he has discovered objective truth, then I am very sorry for you. If you’d like to open a new thread to discuss that article, I’m happy to discuss it with you.