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I think I've found the magical ingredient for generating tons of comments on LJ, at least among my friend- circle, and it is very simple-
Talk about head-covering and/or ritual-wear and gender.
I guess people with those interests tend to congregate.
I think other halakhic concerns might get close- so, here's one I need to do some research into- what has the status of a shoe, and the acceptability going barefoot during (davening on) Yom Kippur.
Talk about head-covering and/or ritual-wear and gender.
I guess people with those interests tend to congregate.
I think other halakhic concerns might get close- so, here's one I need to do some research into- what has the status of a shoe, and the acceptability going barefoot during (davening on) Yom Kippur.
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On head-covering: I can't persuade my boss it's anything but a rudeness on my part to wear headcoverings indoors at work, so I do it at home/shul and pick my battles.
On shoes on YK: I borrowed my wife's straw sandals with ribbon ties. I wouldn't ordinarily call them shoes... does that count? :)
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Isn't it illegal for his private opinion on the matter to have any effect on how you're treated in the workplace? Smells like a freedom of religious expression lawsuit waiting to happen!
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To her boss, perhaps it is no more offensive and immoral that insisting that male employees wear ties.
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I work in Virginia, and my entire professional life there could be a an extended civil rights battle, if I wanted to make it so. But I like my job, and Hashem doesn't care.
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You're right that the social practice of covering one's head isn't necessarily the highest value in the world, but I'd like to think that Hashem cares ddeply about your boss enforcing his pettiness on you.
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Regarding the shoe thing, there's a great summary in one of those halakha summary books in Hebrew; I forget the reference, but someone (else) who's taken Nati Helfgot's Orah Hayyim shiur at YCT might know it. (Maybe it's the Piskei Teshuvot?) I remember that there were three different purposes, but the only one I remember is that you should be able to feel the ground through the shoes. Barefoot ought to be permissible, since it's pretty much what the Mishna/Tosefta were imagining, since the latter talks about the case of cloth slippers as a middle case.
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What's the problem with that? The mishno forbids נעילת הסנדל. The gemoro presents the whole "non-leather shoes" thing as a loophole that Rovo used to use so that he wouldn't have to hurt his feet. If anything, going barefoot should be much better.
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Talk about head-covering and/or ritual-wear and gender.
OK, you're talking about hatam_soferet's latest post.
I found the first paragraph of hir post-- about the proper tune for פסוקי דזמרא on YK-- to be far more interesting than the second paragraph. I was disappointed that nobody else seemed to care. I kept looking back to see whether there were any new comments on that first paragraph, yet there were not.
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I had a pair of shoes stashed under my chair for wearing during the Standing 18 and whilst reading Torah, and collected many, many weird looks the rest of the time. Hur.
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I went barefoot most of the time- other than that, I had flip-flops, which I found at Kol Nidre really did nasty things to my knees when I just stood in them. But then a friend brought up the inevitable "Aaah, it'll look like you're in mourning" issue, which I had thought wasn't an issue on YK, but I figured investigating public opinion here wouldn't hurt..
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normally, i wear sandals without socks. socks go with other types of shoes, so it shows that the sandals are meant in place of some other type.
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But that would only be hiding the fact of a pet, not the pet itself, although that would presumably be hidden by extension.
Maybe it's a digital pet?
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Drat, I just did.
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Probably not as easy on the feet as might be imagined, however.
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I don't know of any men who go to shul in a frummy women's hat, ankle-length dress/skirt, and wig, or who wear those doily-like headcoverings. ...
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Sometimes I'd rather wear a scarf. Go know.
The thing is, women in pants used to look weird too. Do you find that odd now though?
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then i saw men with long hair wearing yarmulkas and realized that it's not the sex/gender, it's the length of the hair that bothers me. yarmulkas go with short hair! :-P
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I.e. do you associate yarmulkas with short hair primarily, and therefore a woman with short hair and a kippah looks reasonably right, or do you associate long hair with women, and therefore a man with long hair and a kippah looks wrong?
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That *is* the magic ingredient, although Niddah tends to do the trick also! :-)
But yeah, we congregate... so what? :-) We need a space to vent! :-)
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