I am ayelet. I work with email marketing and SEO. I like to photograph. I am attending Law School.
+ 01.18.2011 / 7,852 notes / via theabstract
ashmariie :Hi,
Your question has caught me off guard. I didn’t ever expect to get such a question. So it’s taken a lot of thinking and I still am not sure how to answer it.
Well in short you can do whatever you want and fulfills your own ways of practicing your faith.
First, you customarily wear a tichel once you get married.
It serves lots of reasons that you can read about here: http://www.chabad.org/theJewishWoman/article_cdo/aid/336035/jewish/The-Meaning-of-Hair-Covering.htm
That’s not to say that people would not judge you and consider you making some type of faux pas.
It’s an interesting blog post that you wrote, and I understand your feelings.
You mention that you are Jewish by heritage, not sure what that means exactly. But you may want to consider why you have such a desire to cover your hair and fulfill this Jewish mitzvah that was wiped away in Christian practice today. Many Jews express a belief that you have a deep Jewish soul, if you infact are Jewish, that is always yearning to come out. There is a concept of Ba’al Teshuva, returning to the faith, that is what normally happens to those Jew’s whose souls just come out and want to express their Jewishness. I know that’s what happened to me.
In summary you can do whatever you feel you need to and shouldn’t worry about others, but make sure what you are doing is for a reason that looking back on you would be happy you made.
You can email me at me@iamayelet.com if you want to correspond that way.
Thanks for the thought provoking question.
“Two Polish neo-Nazis who were childhood sweethearts and later became skinheads have discovered what for them is a shocking family secret: They’re actually Jewish.”
Great tour through Jerusalem.
A tichel queen!
Tour of Jerusalem
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