[Avodah] Rav Shimon Schwab on how Jewish women should dress

[Zev Sero]

Chana Luntz wrote:

> In any event, it would certainly have been better if instead of my using the
> example of a husband going away to midinas hayam, I had used the example of
> a husband who becomes insane and is in no position to appreciate his wife's
> tachshitim, as the same point could have been made, without entering into a
> complicated machlokus.

It's not at all obvious to me that a shoteh (and certainly a cheresh)
can't appreciate his wife's beauty.  On the contrary, it seems to me
that the most obvious reason why the BD does give the wife of a cheresh
or shoteh money for adornments is that it's assumed the husband *does*
like it, and would willingly give her the money if he were able to.
He may be off his nut, but he's not in a coma.  Thus I don't understand
the Hafla'ah's question.

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