CHABAD Forgot To Tell You This Secret About Wigs/Sheitel

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yaron Reuven’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] in this temple in Southern India thousands of devotees are preparing to make a rather unusual offering some of them have waited years for this moment growing their hair before giving it to the gods it is a sacr ritual for millions of Hindus my daughter was really sick I vowed to donate my hair if recovered do you know what will happen to your hair no I do not know but it will be offered to the gods and that's all that matters to me every Saturday thousands of pilgrims come to the dwarka tumala temple to be shaved by one of the 95 Barbers that work here the pilgrims leave behind kilos of hair the temple has turned the Pilgrim's offerings into an incredibly lucrative business once cut the hair is collected and then stored by the temple it is then explored Ed around the world to be used in wigs and hair extensions I don't know exactly what happens to the hair the leaders of the temple take it and they sell it for how much well I know the temple makes about a million dollar per year after it's collected at the temple the hair is then transported to rindra vanka's factory mix the hair okay okay and separate the dark strands every year hundreds of of tons of hair from several temples is treated here by the factory 3,000 workers the hair is washed dried and then sorted the factory stalks hair of every kind color and form for rindra Vanka his products are a source of Pride you see my God you see how he unbelievable how many inches is this yeah it's a 46 46 yeah wow I can't believe it I've been working in this business for seven years but this is the first time I've touched hair this long more than a meter long the price is

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2. 4:23the page 64b the Mish there that talks about hair on the head and and and…
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