Why did Jews stop wearing the Hijab...

Why did Jews stop wearing the Hijab? I've read it was Jewish in origin and that Jewish women were historically required to cover their hair and neck.

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>Jewish origin.
Semitic.

The practical reason for face covering is that the Jews lived in desert-raid-rape-kidnap-slavery land. They were nomadic raiders and they needed to hide their women from other nomadic raiders.

Once they got conquered and started living in cities the custom only pertained to Jewish women who went to Temple.

It goes deeper than this. You know the Keffiyeh? The Palestinian Indigenous scarf thing? It used to be Jewish as well. It’s talked about in the Talmud and the Bible, plus Maccabees and other texts. It was originally called the Sudra, once the Arabs invaded and annexed the entire Middle East they saw it as a crown and banned infidels from wearing it. It became associated with Arabs because of this.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudra_(headdress)

You could fact check me on this, but Jewish women living in Persia as early as the first century were wearing the Hijab, but I wouldn't doubt that this tradition came from further south in the Arabian Peninsula. Particularly in Yemen where much of the garments were produced then.

The Veil started as a Mediterranean thing in general.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil
>In 166 BC, consul Sulpicius Gallus divorced his wife because she had left the house unveiled, thus allowing all to see, as he said, what only he should see.

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women still cover their hair and necks. They either wear some sort of headdress or cut their hair short and wear a wig.

>The earliest attested reference to veiling is found a Middle Assyrian law code dating from between 1400 and 1100 BC.

Why don't you actually read the page before cherry picking a sentence for the sake of being right.

I always think its really interesting how good practices become encoded in a religion or culture and then become at best outdated and at worst actively harmful to development. Like freedom of arms was probably vitally important to the growth of america but now its harmful, forced marriages were a force for stability etc. etc.
ps. pls dont start some shit political debate over this post.

>Assyrian
>Not Mediterranean

Pick one.

smfh

Why do Christian women not wear the veil any more?

Why do Christians practice usury now when it used to be forbidden?

Why do Jews reject the obvious Messiah?

It's almost like Judaism and Christianity have gone astray....

>once the Arabs invaded and annexed the entire Middle East they saw it as a crown and banned infidels from wearing it. It became associated with Arabs because of this.
Too bad the source for this is the Zionist Freedom Association.

>Why do Jews reject the obvious Messiah?
If a king will arise from the House of David who diligently contemplates the Torah and observes its mitzvot as prescribed by the Written Law and the Oral Law as David, his ancestor, will compel all of Israel to walk in (the way of the Torah) and rectify the breaches in its observance, and fight the wars of God, we may, with assurance, consider him Mashiach.

If he succeeds in the above, builds the Temple in its place, and gathers the dispersed of Israel, he is definitely the Mashiach.

He will then improve the entire world, motivating all the nations to serve God together, as Tzephaniah 3:9 states: 'I will transform the peoples to a purer language that they all will call upon the name of God and serve Him with one purpose.'

If he did not succeed to this degree or was killed, he surely is not the redeemer promised by the Torah. Rather, he should be considered as all the other proper and complete kings of the Davidic dynasty who died. God caused him to arise only to test the many, as Daniel 11:35 states: 'And some of the wise men will stumble, to try them, to refine, and to clarify until the appointed time, because the set time is in the future.'

Jesus of Nazareth who aspired to be the Mashiach and was executed by the court was also alluded to in Daniel's prophecies, as ibid. 11:14 states: 'The vulgar among your people shall exalt themselves in an attempt to fulfill the vision, but they shall stumble.'

Can there be a greater stumbling block than Christianity? All the prophets spoke of Mashiach as the redeemer of Israel and their savior who would gather their dispersed and strengthen their observance of the mitzvot. In contrast, Christianity caused the Jews to be slain by the sword, their remnants to be scattered and humbled, the Torah to be altered, and the majority of the world to err and serve a god other than the Lord.

The Fertile Crescent is Mediterranean.

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This.
It's true. Mediterranean people are closer related to each other than non-Mediterranean people.

I'm not trying to ruin OP's thread, but we're not talking on the basis of genetics here, we're talking culture. Culturally the veil predates Greece or the Mediterranean area, as attested to the reference of it being mention in an Assyrian law code, over a thousand years before Sulpicius Gallus who he cherry picked for the sake of trying to know what he's talking about.

I'm not Christian. Jesus(AS) is the obvious Messiah, he will fulfill these qualifications when he descends again to defeat the anti Christ (A.K.A Jewish messiah/Shia Mahdi/Christian "Jesus") But he will implement the Law of Muhammad (SAWS) not of the gospels or torah.

>Jesus of Nazareth who aspired to be the Mashiach and was executed

There is zero evidence that Jesus (PBUH) died on the cross.

It's just a fact. Do you not know the Dhimmi laws? Jews and Christians had strict clothing restrictions. This is where the "Yellow badge" Nazi thing came from in the first place. They needed to be able to tell the difference instantly between a Muslim and an Infidel because they were supposed to be treated differently.

Most Jews nowadays are European Jews. In Europe it was not common for people to wear Hijabs, however in the middle east it was. Thats why up until recently middle eastern Jews did in fact wear hijabs and other such clothing. Its kind of been associated with Islam now and many Jews, especially those in the middle east, avoid wearing hijabs.

Im not sure but I think he's referring to the modern practice of wearing a hijab....its directly related to Byzantine cultural practices, which were inherited from the Romans and Greeks...which probably got them from Anatolians who probably got them from Mesopotamian. But yeah, modern hijabs are histiographically attested to Byzantine and Roman practices.

They still wore the veil for most of European history as well. It's very recently that they stopped, within the last few generations. It would be hard to find a Jewish woman in Medieval Europe not wearing one.

Slavic grandmas still wear veil today

Isn't he supposed to be in the Red Sea? Why hasn't he been found?

Matter of analyzing cost

All that fabric is expensive, and looking is free

There was no law like that pertaining to a ban on Jews wearing keffiyehs. There was only some scholarly opinions saying they should wear yellow turbans, and most times even that was never put into practice by local rule.

The veil or mitpachat was very popular. However, its fall into minority use kind of parallel with the raise of wigs.

Wigs, back in the middle ages, kind of sucked. They were basically a glued mess of horse hair. They didn't look like a person's hair at all, but any hair was basically photorealistic to people that only had linen to work with. As more and more Jewish women opted to wear wigs instead of mitpachatot, the rabbinic community made rulings justifying the practice as obeying the laws of modesty (tzinua). Then wigs got better and better and better and the mitpachat just kind of fell by the way side. The rich Jewess would wear a wig while the poor one would don a mitpachat.

Nowadays wigs are pretty realistic, relatively speaking, and so most any Ashkenazi Jewish woman (that is religious) will wear a wig. However, in the Sephardic and Mizrahi communities (where this innovation was never accessible to anyone for both economic and political reasons), the rabbis ruled that this European invention did not obey tzinua and that it was not allowed. They already had a fashionable headdress for women, it was the rhedeed (hijab) and it was a traditional head piece accepted by all of Pan-Arabic society.

The mitpachat however, definitely had its own majority in the Baltic states, Turkey, Italy, and other places.

Why does God have such downer on women's hair?

Or more accurately, why do Semitic cultures place such emphasis on women's hair?