Hacham Yehuda Ben Yaakov Nechama


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A few quotes from the Rabbi on 'Customs of Israel'
in which he tells of the protest at covering hair, a custom originating in the Zohar
It was not against the rabbi, may he be safe and prosper, that they held the protest, but against the stringency concerning "women's hair" More than sixty boys, young and old, saying that stringency concerning covering hair originates in the Zohar and kabbalist texts, and that these books were not endorsed by the entire Diaspora, as were the Mishna and Talmud. They have therefore changed their clothing and their wives' clothing and dressed them in pleasant European fashion. Yes, this nation and the entire generation is beginning to awake from its old slumber. Who knows if the day is near when, in keeping with the prophet's words, we will be one single nation from one end of the world to the other, and nations will longer raise the swords of faith against each other nor study the war of argument. May God speedily rule the entire world in glory and in our day, Amen.
Michtavei Dodim Meyaiin, Letter 73, p. 128, Salonika, 1893
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