[Avodah] who avoids whom?

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From: "Chana Luntz" _chana at kolsassoon.org.uk_ 
(mailto:chana at kolsassoon.org.uk) 

>>  Thirdly of all there is the practicality of the matter.  Where and how  
did
she prepare for eg tevila if she kept the plaits of her hair always  covered
(and presumably plaited).   <<
Regards

Chana

 
>>>>>
 
I have thought about this question before and can suggest several possible  
answers:
All depend on reading "the walls of her house never saw her hair" very  
literally:
 
1.  She bathed in a public bath-house (the one for women of course),  not 
in her own home.
2.  She bathed in a private bath-house, like an outhouse, not attached  to 
her house.
3.  She erected a tent above and around her bathtub so that she could  
bathe without the walls of her house seeing her.
 
BTW it seems to me that if you want to emulate her, you should never leave  
your hair uncovered in your house -- EXCEPT in the bathroom -- which I take 
to  be not really part of your house.  Your bathroom, although attached to 
your  house, has the status of an outhouse or bath-house.  (PS I do not want 
to  emulate her, personally -- I consider it hard enough nowadays to cover 
your hair  in public, without adopting any chumras -- don't know if others 
would agree that  her custom was a chumra -- or does it have some halachic, 
i.e.,  prescriptive, status?)
 

--Toby  Katz
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Romney -- good  values, good family, good  hair


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