Women
Women and Modesty
Question
1. Is it permitted for a woman to wear short pants and a sleeveless undershirt at home?
2. Is it permitted for a woman to wear tights at home?
3. Is it permitted for a woman to go at home without a head covering?
4. Is it permitted for a woman to have permanent makeup?
5. Is it permitted for a woman to make two holes in her ear for an earring?
6. Is it permitted for a woman to wear an earring in her nose or mouth?
7. Is it permitted for a woman to deal with her hair, dyeing / straightening / etc.?
8. Is it permitted for a woman to wear high-heeled shoes?
9. Is it permitted for a woman to wear a sleeveless undershirt at home?
10. Is it permitted for a woman to have a belly piercing?
11. How much of a woman must cover her hair?
12. Why is tights pants considered lo tilbash, when today this is the way women dress?
13. How should one dress when doing sports in the street.
P.S. If possible, please answer me only according to the most basic halacha.
Thank you in advance
Answer
Shalom u-vrachah
1. Permitted.
2. Permitted.
3. Permitted.
4. Permitted.
5. If it is close together and near one another, such that it is not in an unusual form, there is no prohibition.
6. It is not proper.
7. Yes.
8. If it does not make a sound.
9. Permitted.
10. Permitted.
11. In a place where strangers are present, or in the street, one is obligated to cover the entire head except for a width of two fingers at the forehead.
12. There is no lo tilbash problem for women in tights pants, but it is כמובן forbidden to go like that in the street.
13. There is no leniency in modesty in the street for the sake of sports, כמובן.
It is forbidden for a woman to run in the street even for the sake of sports.
Everything we permitted at home means when there are no men in the house.
With blessings,
Binyamin Shmueli
