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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2
face=Arial>From: "Chana Luntz" <A
href="mailto:chana@kolsassoon.org.uk">chana@kolsassoon.org.uk</A><BR><BR>>>
Thirdly of all there is the practicality of the matter. Where and how
did<BR>she prepare for eg tevila if she kept the plaits of her hair always
covered<BR>(and presumably plaited).
<<<BR>Regards<BR><BR>Chana</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>I have thought about this question before and can suggest several possible
answers:</DIV>
<DIV>All depend on reading "the walls of her house never saw her hair" very
literally:</DIV>
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<DIV>1. She bathed in a public bath-house (the one for women of course),
not in her own home.</DIV>
<DIV>2. She bathed in a private bath-house, like an outhouse, not attached
to her house.</DIV>
<DIV>3. She erected a tent above and around her bathtub so that she could
bathe without the walls of her house seeing her.</DIV>
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<DIV>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?)</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff></FONT><BR><FONT color=#0000ff><STRONG>--Toby
Katz<BR>=============</STRONG></FONT><BR><FONT color=#0000ff>Romney -- good
values, good family, good
hair<BR><BR><BR>-------------------------------------------------------------------
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