After I first got married I covered my hair with a full sheitel. After six months of headaches, discomfort, and felling unattractive I stopped covering my hair and although the guilt made me struggle with it I knew I couldn’t go back to a regular sheitel. This Yom kippur I began covering my hair again with hats and bandanas and scarves. I hated though looking different, I missed having hair.
I started looking into alternate options and found out about the kipa/yarmulke fall. This literally saved my hair covering. I cannot explain how comfortable the kipa fall is. Although it may not be the answer for everyone it certainly was the answer for me. I can now cover my hair and feel like me doing it. Kipa falls can be made by many sheitel machers from a regular fall or sheitel. This is the least expensive option. They are also sold by many wig salons including Designs by Flora, Qourum Salon, Yali’s, Claire Accuhair, and Dov Salon among others. For more info feel free to post away.
Bargain Jewess
Is there an online source to find these?
There are a few. I would suggest though making one (you’ll probably be able to make two out of a pre-existing wig or fall assuming you already own one.) If not search for toppers or mini falls. You can also find them on the savvy sheitel’s website and on yaffa’s website although i have had very bad experiences with both Yaffa’s product and customer service. Hope it helps.
Arielle
I would love to know how they actually work. How are they different from headband falls?
well a headband fall like a wig goes over your head and requires you to put your hair up against the head. The kipa fall has a base like a kipa. Though larger. Basically they can either be like a fall or have a skin part. They have either combs and clips or just clips; clips being more common usually two in the front two in the back. it clips in and the hair lays over your hair. it covers just about everything and looks incredibly natural and i frequently forget it’s on i’ve taken a shabbos couch nap in it. plus it’s easy to do a ponytail or updo. It does not cover as much as a traditional fall and that is where the difference lies.
Kippah falls are the best solution, they are a whole new world and perspective on covering your hair. I am so glad to hear you are happy with it and thanks for the Blog, it is an item that needs a lot more publicity. It can change peoples entire outlook on the mitzveh.
I have dealt with so many people who are just so sincerely happy that they can have the comfort of not covering their hair without the horrible conflict and guilt of uncovering their hair. The best part of the Kippah fall is that they are the most cost effective (though major shietal lines will still take you through a loop) , making the mitzveh all the easier. Kipah falls, because they take the look of your natural hair, do not need to be as high quality and can be made out of an old piece that has no life left to it or a low quality piece. A brand new piece on the low quality end can cost you as little as $300, and on a higher quality $4-500, still considerably cheaper than the cost of hats in a year!
I am writing to inform you that there is No codified Halacha that a married woman must cover her hair totally and constantly whenever she steps out of her house.
The Halachah has been MISinterpreted.The true interpretation of the Halachah is as follows:
A married woman is required to cover her hair when she lights the candles to welcome in Shabbat and Yom Tov – lechavod Shabbat ve Yom Tov – and when she goes to the Synagogue, because that is the place of Kedusha.
The Halacha does not require anything more from married women.
This misinterpretation of the Torah is completely Assur, and a TWISTING of the Torah.The Torah must remain straight.
In ancient times, a woman would only cover her hair upon entering the Beit Hamikdash.Similarly for the Sotah-otherwise she would not be required to cover her hair ordinarily, day to day.
It is very important for people to know and realise that when a married woman covers her hair with ‘Real Hair’ the woman is covering herself with 100% Tumah. This is totally against the Torah.
Nothing could be more nonsensical than for a Jewish woman to cover her hair with someone else’s hair -who was not Jewish as well!She can never fully be sure that this ‘hair’ has not come from meitim-despite any guarantee by the seller.This ‘real hair’ is doubly and in some circumstances, triply Tumah.
1.It will contain the leftover dead hair cells from another person – however much it has been treated, the tumah is still there.
2.This other person (likely to be a non-Jew who most likely was involved in some kind of Avodah Zarah) may have eaten bacon, ham, lobster etc, all of which are totally forbidden as unclean and non-kosher foods in Halacha.
3.If the woman happens to be the wife of a COHEN, then she is bringing her husband into close contact and proximity with meitim and Tumah Every day, and throughout their married life. This is clearly strictly against the Torah.
There is nothing more degrading and demeaning to a woman than to make her cover her hair FOR LIFE upon marriage.It is an abhorrent practice.
Any man who makes such a ridiculous demand on his wife, or wife-to-be, should similarly also be required by his wife to wear: long white stockings, even in the summer; a fur streimel; grow a long beard; wear a black hat and coat constantly, and cover his face when he speaks to his wife.Wigs were merely a fashion item in the time of Louis XIV-they are not for the Jewish woman!
Rabbi Menachem Schneeersohn tz”l, was unfortunately wrong in this instance.He gave the directive that a married woman must cover her head with a “sheitel.”This needs to be corrected.Rabbi Schneersohn a”h, was a Tzaddik, – but on this – he was, unfortunately not correct.
It is extremely unhealthy and unhygienic for a woman to cover her hair constantly.The hair needs oxygen to breathe.A woman’s hair will lose its natural beauty and shine, she may have scalp problems, some of her hair may fall out, she may get headaches, and she may end up cutting it short like a man, when she always wore it long, in order not to have too much discomfort from her hair covering.
Do you think that HaKadosh Baruch Hu commanded this of women? I can assure you that He did not.The commmandments are not meant to cause so much repression and oppression in women.Was Chava created with a wig? Of course not! Did she start wearing a wig? Of course not!
Not a single “dayan” or “rabbi” has the slightest bit of interest in correcting the situation for the women.Therefore, the women will have to correct the situation for themselves.
Whether you wish to accept the correction–which is true–is up to you.Are you going to live by the truth?Are you going to use the spark of intelligence that Hashem gave to you and all women?Or are you going to follow rabbis and dayanim who tell you to wear a wig in a Heat Wave–and you thank them for it as well?
Please Wake Up.
And use the spark of intelligence that Hakadosh Baruch Hu gave to you and blessed you with
1. To all the women who are wondering about the sources:
We have all been created, “Betselem Elokim” – “in the image of Elokim.”
This means that we have been given something called “intelligence.” The source is the very first Parsha, Bereishit – 1:27.
It is time that people use the spark of intelligence and Kedusha with which Hashem has blessed them.
If your rabbi will tell you to go and jump into the depths of a glacier, would you do that too – and give me a source for it?
“According to the Zohar”, I should also be covering my hair with a wig when I have a bath. “According to the Zohar and the Gemara” and all the sources that have misinterpreted the Halachah, and MIStranslated the Zohar, I should also have been born with a WIG on my head.
Those who tell me about their sources which are incorrect, should also tell me about these “translations” and these “sources.”
2.Remember that the Jewish women are very, very holy. They are much more holy than the men. Look at the exemplary behaviour of the women at Har Sinai.
The women never sinned at the Eigel, and so are greatly elevated. Many of the men, unfortunately, ran after a calf made out of a lump of gold – after they had just been given the Torah, and seen the greatest of all Revelations. The women refused to give their gold for the avodah zarah of the men.
The women were greatly elevated after such a wonderful display of Emunah, and they are regarded very highly in Shamayim.
That is why women are not even required to pray. They can pray at home on their own. Nor do women have to make up a minyan. That is how holy the Jewish women are. Men have to pray 3 times a day to remind them of their Creator.
The men are telling the women to put the hair of a non-Jewish woman who may have eaten things like snakes and sharks and alligators, and has prayed in churches, Buddist temples or Hindu temples : on their own Heads. They had better wake up.
If the men don’t want to wake up to the truth, and the true interpretation of the Halacha, the women will wake them up – whether they like it or not.
3. Look at the Jewish women in history, and remember how holy they are.
(a) Yaakov, who was the greatest of the Avot, came to marry the 2 daughters of Lavan, Rachel and Leah. Lavan was not exactly a tzaddik. Yaakov went to Lavan, of all people, to marry his 2 daughters – not 1 daughter, but his 2 daughters. Nothing could be greater than that.
(b) Rut, who came from Moav, became the ancestor of David Hamelech.
(c ) Batya, the daughter of Paroh, was given eternal life because she rescued Moshe from the river. No one could have been more evil than Paroh.
(d) Devorah, was a Neviah, and also a Judge.
Women, who came from such adverse backgrounds, with wicked fathers – were able to become builders of Am Yisrael. That is how holy the women are, and how much more elevated they are than the men.
This was never the case with men. It never happened the other way round.
Don’t tell me it is holy for me to wear a WIG! Hair over my hair. This is ridiculous!
Please Wake Up.
Use the spark of intelligence that Hakadosh Baruch Hu gave to you and blessed you with.
And give your wig back to your husband if you wear one.
4. Remember: Not a single “dayan” or “rabbi” has the slightest bit of interest in correcting the situation for the women. Therefore, the women will have to correct the situation for
themselves.
Whether you wish to accept the correction–which is true–is up to you. Are you going to live by the truth? Are you going to use the spark of intelligence that Hashem gave to you and all women? Or are you going to follow rabbis and dayanim who tell you to wear a wig in a Heat Wave–and you thank them for it as well?
The hair of a married woman is considered erva-a nakedness. That does not make her any less holy or special. The custom to covering one’s hair upon marriage-and in some Sephardic communities, Before marriage-is a legitimate one, and is no more degrading than covering one’s breasts or thighs.
Wigs are a separate issue. It was a heter which I believe was adopted wholesale by Ashkenazim in the late 19th century. Most Sephardic rabbanim do NOT condone wigs outright, and treat it as a circumstantial heter for the most part.
But thanks to the practice of minhagim being ingrained and as accepted as halacha (Torah laws are refined on Earth, after all), we can NEVER be judgemental of those who wear, support the practice of wearing, or rule that it is halachically acceptable to wear, wigs any more than we can eat rice/corn/legumes on passover.
So I’d love to know more about “kipa falls.” Perhaps my married friends will appreciate the tips! Thanks!
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The next things the ‘rabbis’ will come up with is to tell the woman to wear a CARPET on her head. Not a sheitel AND a hat, but a Carpet. Or you could go for 5 shaitels on your heads and a rug.
And do you know what the Jewish woman will say to her husband?
‘Yes, husband! I am now wearing a carpet on my head!’
You women must either be extremely thick, or petrified.
Odd , your article shows up with a red hue to it, what color is the main color on your site?
Hi, if you are still monitoring the comments, could you please recommend someone who does this in the New York area. I know you listed a few places, but I was hoping for a recommendation of a place you had a good experience with. I do have a recommendation for a place that charges around $1000.
Thanks
Hi,
There are a few people I can recommend. One is Yael Aviva wigs. I know Yael personally, and she will go out of her way to find you something that matches your need or budget. If you are interested in having a wig made into a kippah fall you can contact Lani Kay. She’s in NJ but both of them can come to you. Also there’s a place called Rachel’s in NJ I was told about that apparently is around $800 for a kippah fall. If you are interested please email directly for the numbers.
Hi, I live in Manhattan and interested in seeing kip wigs. Is there someone in NY that does this? Also, please explain how the part looks
Thank you
Hi Rivka Devora,
actually there are a lot of people in NY who do this. Message me for a full list. Bargainjewess@gmail.com