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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><font size=3 color="#222222" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>#! ... May a women uncover her hair in private? Halachah addresses public, semipublic, and private settings:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><b><font size=3 color="#222222" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222;font-weight:bold'>Public</span></font></b><font size=3 color="#222222"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>: The Torah states that a woman must completely cover her hair in a public place. Some opinions state that under a <i><span style='font-style:italic'>tefach</span></i> (a handbreadth, about three inches total) of hair may show.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><b><font size=3 color="#222222" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222;font-weight:bold'>Semipublic</span></font></b><font size=3 color="#222222"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>: In a semipublic place, one opinion states that even if men are not usually found there, a married woman must cover her hair.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><i><font size=3 color="#222222" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222;font-style:italic'>When a woman covers her hair, this brings much blessing into the home<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color="#222222" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222;background:white;font-weight:bold'>Private</span></font></b><font size=3 color="#222222"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222;background:white'>: The <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Biur Halachah</span></i> writes that although originally it was permitted for married women to uncover their hair in the privacy of their homes, in more recent times “the prevailing custom in all places is for women to cover their hair, even in the privacy of their own homes.... Since our ancestors, in all localities, have adopted this practice, it has taken on the full force of Jewish law and is obligatory....”</span></font><font size=3><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><font size=3 color="#222222" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>Rabbi Moshe Feinstein disagrees with this ruling and writes that “[covering hair when in private] is praiseworthy, but not required.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><font size=3 color="#222222" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>Can anyone tell me where this igros moshe is? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><font size=3 color="#222222" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><font size=3 color="#222222" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>#2 </span></font><font size=3 color=black><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><a href="https://www.yoatzot.org/questions-and-answers/1910/">https://www.yoatzot.org/questions-and-answers/1910/</a></span></font><font size=3><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=black face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white;font-weight:bold'>Question: </span></font></b><font size=3 color=black><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Does a woman have to cover her hair in front of her brothers?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><br><b><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white;font-weight:bold'>Answer: </span></b>It is permissible to uncover your hair in your own home in the presence of your father, husband and son.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:11.25pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><font size=3 color=black face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Where it is customary and not considered offensive, a woman may uncover her hair in front of her brother in the privacy of her own home.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:11.25pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><font size=3 color=black face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Is this leniency known/relied upon? Is this what people are doing out there today?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><font size=3 color="#222222" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div></body></html>