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I have a 38 year old son who is engaged to a relgious girl. My question is: why is it that important to be that religious or that observant as for her to cover her head. This seems to me to be an outdated and unimportant custom. After all how beneficial is it to keep the scalp from breathing?
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The law of covering the hair is indeed difficult for many people. Come to think of it, so is the law of not mixing milk and meat, not eating shell fish, not turning on lights on Shabbat etc.
I don't know anyone who ever claimed Judaism is easy, so you are not alone. I feel what you are feeling.
Covering the hair of a married woman is like the oxygen mask covering the face of an astronaut
Laws in the Torah are portals for finite humans to connect to an infinite G-d. Covering the hair of a married woman is like the oxygen mask covering the face of an astronaut: yes, it covers his mouth, but it covers it in order to give him breathing abilities in whole new realms of existence. And yes, the wig/scarf covers her hair, but it uncovers whole new dimensions of life and existence.
On the simplest of levels imagine this: most people get up in the morning and get dressed, looking in the mirror to make sure they look good. The day starts with self. How simple, primitive, mundane and vain. She will get up in the morning get dressed and look in the mirror to make sure G-d is satisfied. Her day will start with G-d. How divine!
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