The Magical Ingredient

[debka_notion]

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.

Comments

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Meh. I'm not shomer anything else, so like I said, I pick my battles. And when I cover at work because I'm working a half day and then going to shul, for example, and someone 'You can take your hat off, we're inside', I just smile a cute smile.

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.

[hotshot2000.livejournal.com]

It's a good thing you like your job, because the whole situation sounds like it stinks. I just have a big issue with people like your boss who are so identity-threatened that they have to put their preference for contingent forms of social practices over an appreciation for the unique ways other culturse express the same values they're trying to express. (Yes, yes, I see the potential internal contradiction, but I think it's resolvable.)

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.