In his recent Motzash shiur, Chief Rabbi Rav Yitzchak Yosef paskened that sheitels, wigs, today come almost entirely from avoda zara and are therefore prohibited from being used by women as a hair covering.
Rav Yosef says he checked the issue out in various ways and almost all the hair used for wigs today definitely comes from avoda zara. Rav Yosef dislikes that Rav Mordechai Gross retracted his initial disapproval and eventually said that wigs are fine. People that buy a wig and bring it home should not ask why they have problems in the home - they have problems because they brought avoda zara into the house. Rav Gross caused a big problem with his retraction.
According to Rav Yosef, people turned it into a hashkafic issue - Mizrochniks wear tichels and Charedim have to wear sheitels - but that is idiocy.
source: Kikar
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If he believes that they "come from" avoda zara why would this Rabbi diminish the severity and say that the repercussion is "problems in the home"?
ReplyDeleteI mean avoda zara is a pretty big no-no.
Why can't he just say, with authority, that they are forbidden m'deoriata, and God fearing Jews shouldn't wear them?
What about all those fine Jews who have perfectly fulfilling and happy lives, in and out of the home? One might think that according to this rabbi they are permitted.
Sometimes when one embellishes he diminishes the message.
The Yosefs have always been against wigs.
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