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Showing posts with label devotional head-covering. Show all posts
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Monday, March 28, 2016

Devotional Head Covering Source, Shulhan Arukh, Orekh Chayim 91:3-4

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Translation partially by Sarah Mulhern. Text: שולחן ערוך אורח חיים הלכות תפלה סימן צא  יש אומרים שאסור להוציא אזכרה מפיו בראש מגולה,...
Monday, March 14, 2016

Devotional Head Covering Source, Shulhan Arukh, Orekh Chayim 2:6

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Text: שולחן ערוך אורח חיים הלכות הנהגת אדם בבקר סימן ב סעיף ו  אסור לילך  בקומה זקופה,  ולא ילך  ד' אמות בגילוי הראש (מפני כבוד ה...
Monday, February 15, 2016

Devotional Head Covering Source, Masechet Sofrim, Chapter 14, Halakha 12

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Translation mostly courtesy of Sarah Mulhern, rabbinical student and friend. (For more on Masechet Sofrim, one of the "smaller tracta...
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Monday, January 18, 2016

Devotional Head Covering Source: Kiddushin 8a

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Translation courtesy of Sarah Mulhern, rabbinical student and friend. Text:  וכגון דקביל כהן עילויה; כי הא דרב כהנא שקיל סודרא מבי פדיון...
Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Devotional Head Covering, Talmud Bavli, Shabbat 118b

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Translation courtesy of Sarah Mulhern, a talented friend and rabbinical student at Hebrew College. Text: אמר רב נחמן: תיתי לי דקיימית ש...
Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Devotional/Men's Head Covering Source: Pesachim 111b

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Thanks for the translation in this post go to Sarah Mulhern, rabbinical student and a friend of mine.  Commentary (and any blame) is, of cou...
Monday, June 8, 2015

Reaction to a Reflection on Head Covering

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A charming and thoughtful personal account of one woman's journey with head covering of various sorts . A couple of highlights, for m...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Neither Fish Nor Fowl?

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I came across this quote in the midst of a piece about mikvah, and it resonated with me in a very uncomfortable way. " At one salon, ...
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Monday, December 2, 2013

Reaction: "My Kippah, Myself"

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This article  resonates with my own experiences.  It is one woman's description of her experiences wearing a kippah for the last 20 year...
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Spiritual Functioning of the Kippah

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I was talking to my husband about how he felt about wearing a kippah.  What we came up with was this: Wearing a kippah is about a baseli...
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Sunday, April 21, 2013

Head Covering as a Spiritual Practice: My Story

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When I started wearing a kippah, it was a spiritual practice.  It made me more aware of my tefillah, it made me more aware of God's pres...
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Thursday, December 13, 2012

Shulhan Arukh on Going Bareheaded

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Shulhan Arukh 2:4 ולא ילך ד' אמות בגלוי הראש (מפני כבוד השכינה) ויבדק נקביו...  Translation: And one should not go/walk 4 cub...