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  • #1437789
    beisyosef
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    Is it ok for a single girl to wear a ring without diamonds on her ring finger or will that make ppl think she’s engaged?

    #1437855
    iacisrmma
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    It was never an issue. It’s NORMAL.

    #1437869
    iacisrmma
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    I forgot to add: It’s called the “ring” finger not a “wedding ring” or “engagement ring” finger.

    #1437880
    👑RebYidd23
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    Longstanding tradition of girls who don’t want to be harassed.

    #1438011
    Joseph
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    RY, how is that applicable to a Jewess? If she’s married she’s covering her hair; if her hair isn’t covered her finger doesn’t change the calculus.

    #1438066
    Binyanadead
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    Yes, it will make stupid yentas think shes engaged. Who cares!!???

    #1438010
    Redleg
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    There is nothing particularly sacred about the third finger of the left hand in halacha. It’s status as the ring finger is just a convention and a non-Jewish one at that. When Choson presents the ring under the chupah, he places it on the Kallah’s right index finger. I could see that it might be awkward to wear it there permanently.

    #1438135
    Joseph
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    Note that there are halachic shittas that a married woman is required to always wear her marriage ring in public. I’ve provided the source in previous threads.

    #1438285
    👑RebYidd23
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    Joseph, engagements matter.

    #1438303
    Joseph
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    RY, engagement rings are a goyishe invention. Diamond engagement rings is a bill of goods invented and sold to you by De Beers from South Africa.

    #1438377
    👑RebYidd23
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    It doesn’t matter who invented it. A CZ on a stainless steel band still deters about 5%.

    #1438467
    yehudayona
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    Whoa, I finally agree with Joseph about something!

    #1438584
    apushatayid
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    Isha niknis bishlosha drachim. How does she advertise she is married if one of the other drachim were used.

    #1438918
    flowers
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    Note that there are halachic shittas that a married woman is required to always wear her marriage ring in public. I’ve provided the source in previous threads.

    A pack of stupidity.

    My guess is you opened this thread in order to say that (stupid) statement.

    #1438941
    Joseph
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    flowers, do you as a woman feel you have the right to disagree and call stupid gedolim who paskened something you don’t like? Please have someone check the Sefer HaChinuch for you. And note that I haven’t started this thread.

    #1438954
    flowers
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    The OP asked a question that sounds very much like a question that you would ask.

    Sefer HaChinuch does not say it is required for a married woman to wear her ring in public. Perhaps he says it is a good idea, but he doesn’t say required. It is completely and totally false to say that she is required to wear her ring in public.

    #1438971
    Joseph
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    You say the Sefer HaChinuch says it’s appropriate for a married woman to always wear her wedding ring, and the reason he gives is that it serves as a “constant reminder” to her status. Do you think his point is “stupid”?

    #1439014
    Phil
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    Joseph,

    I think flowers means to say that you are spouting stupidity for a change. As usual, you incorrectly quote from a source that something is a mandated requirement when the source doesn’t actually say that it is. All for the inner satisfaction you get from criticizing other Jews. Sounds like the opposite of smart to me.

    #1439085
    yehudayona
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    Just to clarify, when I said I agreed with Joseph, it was the part about engagement rings being a racket foisted upon us by the diamond cartel. None of which has to do with wedding rings.

    #1439101
    yehudayona
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    BTW, wedding rings for men became popular when wives figured their husbands going off to war needed a “constant reminder” of their status. Mostly WWII, I think, but possibly WWI. Clearly this is not a traditional Jewish idea, so whence comes the idea that women need a “constant reminder?”

    #1439129
    Joseph
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    “whence comes the idea that women need a “constant reminder?”

    From the Seforim HaKedoshim, as mentioned.

    “wedding rings for men became popular when wives figured their husbands going off to war needed a “constant reminder” of their status.”

    That is antithetical to us Jews, as you said. Chukas Akum for men to wear rings. And the idea of a married man having a “reminder” not to do something wrong is itself not Jewish. Single men are also not allowed to do anything wrong. The fact that a man is married, in Judaism, does not change much the standards of what is appropriate or inappropriate. Married women have a special status, eishes ish, that men don’t have an equivalent status of.

    #1439133
    👑RebYidd23
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    Ring sizes change over time.

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