Monday, July 20, 2009

Is this a Mea Shearim Clothing Style ?

B"H

One issue is really bothering me: The clothing style of the abusive mother from Mea Shearim. If she really belongs to the Toldot Aharon, how come she wears such a RED head cover ?

Wearing "red" in haredi society is totally unheard of and inappropriate. Furthermore, the Toldot Aharon as well as all members of the Edah HaCharedit have very strict clothing regulations. Especially the women where the Edah even gives out centimeters for the width and the length of a skirt.
And the woman on the picture has been walking around in this Chaluk (house dress) for quite a while. At least for a week.
Sometimes her head cover is moving and one can see some shortcut hair. This really irritates me and I thought that the picture must be a fake. A woman from Toldot Aharon walking around like that ?

Has anyone else paid attention to the mother's clothes and can you give any explanation ? Or is it just me wondering ?

The accused woman at the court yesterday. But does she really look like Toldot Aharon ?
Photo: Kikar.Net

5 comments:

  1. I did not notice the robe, but I was wondering about the tichel. the red stood out and seemed strange.

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  2. B"H

    On her very first day in public last week, she already wore a Chaluk but, at least, the traditional Toldot Aharon head cover. A black "Yasameh" during the week (on Shabbat, many wear white). Afterwards, the mother appeared with this kind of cloured head cover but coloured ones are unheard of within Toldot Aharon. The women of the group don't wear any but dark colours (black or blue). First of all, because sometimes one can look through the colour and see the body. Secondly, because any attention of a men's eye should be avoided. And red in Mea Shearim is regarded as a prostitution colour.

    Furthermore, the Toldot Aharon tell their women not to wear Chalukim in public.

    I would have an explanation but don't know if it is true:

    The woman may belong to the Toldot Avraham Yitzchak, the Toldot Aharon split - off. In that group, women started wearing different colours.

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  3. she is a mormon is diguise. the police and state are using her as testing matriel to the reaction of the crowds to her arrest.

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  4. "Can you give any explanation?"

    She is mentally ill and had been in prison for a week.

    Alternatively the Zionist infidels have imprisoned her as part of the genesis of a plan to wipe out hardi Judaism once and for all and to make hiloni sabres of the Meah Shearim masses. First stop: red head coverings.

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  5. B"H

    I don't think that this is a Zionist conspiracy against haredi Judaism. Even if the secular press is jumping on the subject. I am sure that if the same case had happened somewhere else in the country and not in Mea Shearim, the outcry may have been a little less. At least the headlines would get smaller after a while. But this mother is still subject no. 1.

    I don't know who gave her the hair covers. Not only the ugly red one but also another colourful one.
    She is Avraham Freulich's home and still has these covers. So, it cannot be the Zionists.

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