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Women's Socks, How Is This?
Women's Socks, How Is This?
Question
Hello honored rabbi,
I am very confused about the matter of women’s socks. I understood that socks are an actual halacha and not a stringency. I studied at an ulpana in the national-religious sector, and all the teachers who educated me went without pantyhose with a skirt below the knee. In yeshiva I cannot understand how it makes sense that if this is halacha, my teachers, who of course follow halacha and strongly champion modesty, do not follow the halacha? It is very hard for me to begin wearing socks. I started wearing 15 denier, and now it turned out to me that these are forbidden too.
Answer
Hello and blessings,
You are fortunate that you merited to go in modesty as befits a daughter of Hashem, one who fears Hashem.
It is true that halacha requires socks. There are poskim from whom it may be inferred that there is no obligation to wear socks and that this is not halacha. However, there are those who rely on this, and apparently your teachers rely on that as well, although both Maran HaGaon Rav Ovadia Yosef and Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, may the memory of the righteous be a blessing, ruled that one is required to go with socks.
Dark socks can sometimes suffice even at 15 denier, the main thing is that your flesh should not be visible beneath the sock.
With blessings,
Binyamin Shmueli
