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as a slight addendum to what i wrote i above, Hacham Ben Sion Abba Shaul’s zt’l own wife wore a wig. He was known to be cholek on Hacham Ovadiah in thie particular inyan. Generally speaking in the frum Sephardishe world, Hacham Ben Sion’s psakim are followed over Hacham Ovadiah’s.
esthermalka- speak to rabbi isaak dwek of deal/lakewood. he is from halab and can personally attest that mostly all rabbis wives (including his mother) covered their hair. see also Hacham Abraham Antebi’s sefer titled “Chochma Umusar” where he chastises the women for their breach in tznius by uncovering their faces in public. He lived in the late 19th and 20th century where he attests they covered their hair.
Just to address you hats issue and Hacham Ovadianiks in the syrian community-I personally sat at the table of Rav Yehuda Moalem zt’l , rosh yeshiva porat yosef and counterpart of Hacham Ovadia, and asked him about wearing hats or tichels at a chasuna, where the majority of people are wearing wigs (i did not specify whether the wigs the women were wearing were better than their own hair, i just said peah nochrit). So he asked me whats the heter to wear a hat in such a case?
esthermalka- i did not say they strongly oppose his psaks, i said they strongly oppose THIS psak. Please re-read my orig post.
This question has been posed to numerous syrian gedolim including Hacham Yosef Raful, Hacham Eliezer Harari, Even Hacham Baruch zt’l- and all of them paskened we can wear wigs.
You do not need to do much research on this- go look at what every syrian rov’s wife does- they all wear wigs. Hacham Ovadia is a minority in the sepharsdishe velt on this inyan, and practically speaking, in Halab- they always wore wigs. Such is a known fact that anyone who lived there or had parents that were there can verify for you.
Hello, are you syrian? if so, all of our rabbonim strongly opposed this psak of Hacham Ovadiah.
no. i dont feel divided so i did not need to go.
veyr nice letter. yasher koyach
I am syrian and i have to disagree with the authors opinion. To be honest, we are the ones that have the edict on our shuls which prohibit marrying anyone of questionable lineage. The majority of the reason there are not many intermarriages between syrians and ashkenaz is because the demands that WE have on knowing the lineage. Does that mean if we didnt have the edict everything owuld be fine and dandy ? Surely not, however, because we have it, it greatly reduced the probability.
Shticky Guy
id like to correct you. the Lahson hora thing has now 624 hours, that does not mean that its only 624 hours, that means 624 people took it upon themsleves to not speak LH for one hour a day for the entire duration/remainder of the shloshim (depending on when they signed up) so in the end , this far exceeds 10,000 hours!! amazing.
can somebody confirm the # of rav binyomin’s b’m tape library ? the # posted above did not seem to work.
has anyone translated the levaya into english ? if not, i am willing to pay if need be.
I never heard of rav Eisenebrger before this tragedy, and i do not understand yiddish. when i went to be menchameim avel i did see rav eisenebrger and i was just taken aback by his heiligeh coutnenance. I felt as if i was staring at a malach. does anybody know how (from lakewood) i can access shiurim (not in yiddish) from him ?
this is the most unbelievable website. i cannot begin to express how beautiful it is to see the achdus maintained
WellInformedYid AND aries2756
i could not possibly disagree more. Yes women are entitled to a break, they do a lot, and if they want some shabbos menucha there is definitely nice acocmodations for them indoors away from the public eye. A woman’s place has always been in the home, not in the street in the clear visual raneg of ALL passerbyers. WellInformedYid- what does the gemara say about all those women that sat at teh parshas derachim- do you really think it is an acceptabel practice? what twisted world do you live in ???
yechezkel89- every route has thei problem, there’s no one culprit “get together” i can just avoid and walk into my home, wherever you turn in the complex is another grou of wives.
Wolf- I would not be as mad. I’m a man, and every man has tyva’s. There’s no reason why women should be sitting outside on sidewalks, or in some instances on the street, right in the view of passerby men. It’s sickening to see how low people stoop. It’s one thing to sit on your own porch, but to all sit there and talk and laugh as all men walk by… I can’t take it.
apushatayid- I have spoken to the rav- his wife gives a class to the women of the complex and she basically kills them, and they just don’t listen. They think she’s way to machmir for them so they just shut off
I have to agree with the original poster. However My qualm isn’t with young girls walking around, I’m seeing wive’s everywhere i turn congregating, and not just standing in the street talking, which would be fine if they were just passing by and having a quick chat before going to their destination- but when did it become ok to pull up a chair and plop down right in the middle of the sidewalk with a bunch of other wive’s directly in the path of many passerby husbands ?(I live in Lakewood in a large complex that has an eruv) I find it reprehensible, and every single shabbos i steam over this. Theres no reason why when Im walking hoem from shul I should have to dodge numerous congregations of wives in order to get to my home!
All For the Boss- Ruchoma Shain