[Avodah] Wearing Red Clothing

[Zev Sero]

On 24/06/2011 8:56 AM, Prof. Levine wrote:
> The color red is not permitted to be worn by a woman since it is a
> sign of /pritzos. 36/
>
> 36. Rama YD. 178:1,  Shach 3,

The Ramo says nothing about women.  Nor does he say this *is* forbidden;
he gives it as an example of something that *would* be forbidden *if* the
local goyim happen to have a custom to wear red for the sake of pritzus.
Nor does the Shach say anything about women, or that such a custom (and
therefore such a prohibition) actually exists; he just explains why such
a custom *might* exist in some hypothetical place.  But then he cites the
Maharik that our people have a tradition not to wear red; again no
distinction between men and women.

> Chochmas Adorn 89:1

He doesn't even mention red!  This is essentially a recap and expansion
of the Ramo above, but *without* the hypothetical example of red clothes;
what the compiler of this footnote thought he saw here I don't know.


> Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 3:2

Again, no mention of a distinction between men and women, nor *any*
mention of a prohibition on red.  All he gives is the example from
the gemara about a hypothetical situation in which goyim wear red
shoelaces and Jews wear black ones.


> Be'er Moshe 4:147:13, Halichos Bas Yisroel 7:3. See Be'er Moshe 4: 140.

I haven't checked these.



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