Piety, Purity, and Pain: The Head Shaving Ritual for Women in Ultra-Orthodox Communities and Its Underlying Concept of Halachah.
Within the Hungarian and Galician Hasidic communities, women customarily shave their heads shortly before their weddings. Henceforth, they meticulously adhere to this practice, preserving a shorn appearance throughout the duration of their married lives. This practice has long stood at the center of...
| Publicado en: | Modern Judaism: A Journal of Jewish Ideas & Experience Vol. 44; no. 2; pp. 108 - 136 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
May2024
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