Exploring the various changes going on in the African American women's world & varous other tid bits info, news, etc. through the lense of Judaism
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Head Coverings
(This is a girly post)
I really like the head coverings in this video. I'm inspired. Hey, its pretty modest, so there's no reason why I can't (except my hair wouldn't stick out in the back).
Shalom Miriam, I love the African type head coverings and have worn them since the 1980's.You need at least 2 and a half yards of material that is not silky.Light cotton or gauze works very well.
Shalom Miriam, I bought my material in Geula in Jerusalem at a store that was a gigantic fabric warehouse.That was more than 20 years ago,but the religious women tended to make there own cloths,so there must be plenty of material stores around.
I'm a colorful woman and had no problem buying the brightest colors around,including red,my absolute favorite color in the world!.Now I just buy African clothes from the Hebrews and all the dresses come with a long piece for a head wrap.
Miriam, Of course you're beautiful!Black is beautiful!I feel very sad when I meet Black Jewish women who think they can fit in by downplaying their Blackness.I've met some who do it on purpose and others where it simply isn't their personality.
Well it is my personality and after I was Jewish about 6 years and was wearing modest,boring colors,it came to me one day that instead of The Torah of Life,my life was being drained out of me.In order for me to feel fully alive I had to get back to my colors.
You know how it is.We want so to be taken seriously that we sometimes submerge our true personalities into what we think will be more acceptable.That works for some,but it was not who I am.
Speaking of ear piercing.When I first came to Israel for a year long program at The Hebrew University in 1979,I got my ears pierced twice.I did it to assert myself and by the time I'd finished my conversion,the second holes had closed. I reopened them when I returned to Israel in January of 2006 and now I sport two holes!
Its been a trip. though I can't say I regret the path, I am happy that I am settling into my "me-ness" but a with everything that I learned. (i.e. still being modest, but with colors; still loving all things Black, but more cerebral than totally emotional; etc).
I think of Shyne sometimes. He probably has to go through his path and no one should knock him wherever he seems to be turning, but I do hope eventually he'll find his self plus. lol.
Miriam, I,too,thought of Shyne and can't really say anything because I also was on the road to Mea Shearim.That was many years ago and he is a man whereas I was a single woman,but I saw a picture of him on his arrival in Israel with a college T shirt under his jacket and his tzitit hanging out and to me he was perfect.But he's on a journey and I hope he can grow into his Jewishness at his own pace and not take on too much and then throw it all off.
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Shalom Miriam,
I love the African type head coverings and have worn them since the 1980's.You need at least 2 and a half yards of material that is not silky.Light cotton or gauze works very well.
Can I buy something like this in Israel? (with that color as well?)
Shalom Miriam,
I bought my material in Geula in Jerusalem at a store that was a gigantic fabric warehouse.That was more than 20 years ago,but the religious women tended to make there own cloths,so there must be plenty of material stores around.
I'm a colorful woman and had no problem buying the brightest colors around,including red,my absolute favorite color in the world!.Now I just buy African clothes from the Hebrews and all the dresses come with a long piece for a head wrap.
I have one long head covering which is purple with lovely patterns on it. I got it at a Bat Ayin store.
I plan to go back there.
There's no way I can get to Geula, but I do see a material store here in Tsfat, will check that too.
Also, I got inspired to (re)pierce my ears. I have one hole left, the other one closed so I just stopped wearing earrings.
But these women were so beautiful, it just inspired me to put out my own beauty -isn't that interesting? lol.
Miriam,
Of course you're beautiful!Black is beautiful!I feel very sad when I meet Black Jewish women who think they can fit in by downplaying their Blackness.I've met some who do it on purpose and others where it simply isn't their personality.
Well it is my personality and after I was Jewish about 6 years and was wearing modest,boring colors,it came to me one day that instead of The Torah of Life,my life was being drained out of me.In order for me to feel fully alive I had to get back to my colors.
You know how it is.We want so to be taken seriously that we sometimes submerge our true personalities into what we think will be more acceptable.That works for some,but it was not who I am.
Speaking of ear piercing.When I first came to Israel for a year long program at The Hebrew University in 1979,I got my ears pierced twice.I did it to assert myself and by the time I'd finished my conversion,the second holes had closed.
I reopened them when I returned to Israel in January of 2006 and now I sport two holes!
Yona,
Thanks!
Its been a trip. though I can't say I regret the path, I am happy that I am settling into my "me-ness" but a with everything that I learned. (i.e. still being modest, but with colors; still loving all things Black, but more cerebral than totally emotional; etc).
I think of Shyne sometimes. He probably has to go through his path and no one should knock him wherever he seems to be turning, but I do hope eventually he'll find his self plus. lol.
Miriam,
I,too,thought of Shyne and can't really say anything because I also was on the road to Mea Shearim.That was many years ago and he is a man whereas I was a single woman,but I saw a picture of him on his arrival in Israel with a college T shirt under his jacket and his tzitit hanging out and to me he was perfect.But he's on a journey and I hope he can grow into his Jewishness at his own pace and not take on too much and then throw it all off.
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