Yasmine Mohammed ياسمين محمد  🦋

Re wigs, I’m specifically referring to the Hasidic (fundamentalist Jewish) practice of a married woman shaving her head and wearing a wig. Like the other examples, it’s a practice that stems from modesty culture.

I'll file this under 'learn something new every day' as I had no idea orthodox Jewish women shaved their heads. I knew some covered their hair.

They don't. She's off mark here, the point of covering the hair is to keep it for your husbands eyes only, its seen as arousing. It would defeat the whole purpose to shave the head. They pin their hair down under a different wig, or more old school just cover it with a scarf.

Its still rooted in modesty culture, shes for sure right about that. But vast majority of orthodox women who cover just wear and additional wig or scarf.

Hi @liberalnotlefty. As someone very familiar with this community I can tell you that the majority hasidic women (except Chabad Lubavitch) do shave their hair (or are rebelling against community norms when they don't).

I am as well, and have several female family members who wear the wig :) Maybe its different where you live, but wigs are definitely the most popular here!

Could be I live in a higher Chabad concentrated area as well :)

The wig is worn as well, over the shaved head. (Or sometimes a different type of covering.) Nobody at all doesn't wear a head covering as well.