Why Is One Earring Piercing Okay And Two Are Not?

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

Hi, this is Dovid Olawsky with our question and answer series. Why is one earring piercing okay and two are not? I preface this by saying, obviously, we're talking about in a society where it is looked down upon to have more than one earring piercing. So, [snorts] uh the Gemara says the following. In a place where women wear veils, you In a place where women wear veils, you should not go unveiled. And in a place where they don't wear veils, you should not veil your face. Which means when it comes to the laws of tzniut, of what is considered acceptable, a lot of it has to do with local custom. Of what people take upon themselves. There are some places where women do not cover the lower part of their legs, and cover the lower part of their legs, and there are places where women do. And the places where women do, women should not go without socks because that is the prevailing custom. And um let's just say that we can see throughout history that um these rules change. There was a time when no man would go out wearing trousers. Trousers were considered an undergarment. And uh and I'm I'm stressing the use of And uh and I'm I'm stressing the use of the word trousers because we in uh America call them pants, and in in England pants mean undergarments. But, that used to be the case for everybody. Uh in the Middle Ages, people wore this long shirt robe, and they wore their pants underneath. And if you see the Kohanim, the Kohanim had what called michnasayim, pants that they wore, and a long robe that came

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1. 0:00Hi, this is Dovid Olawsky with our question and answer series. Why is one earring piercing…
2. 0:30In a place where women wear veils, you should not go unveiled. And in a place…
3. 1:00cover the lower part of their legs, and there are places where women do. And the…
4. 1:30And uh and I'm I'm stressing the use of the word trousers because we in uh…
5. 2:00they wore, and a long robe that came down to their feet. That was the way…
6. 2:31if you're in a society where they cover themselves, then that is considered what's acceptable. There…
7. 3:02earring, then that's what's considered tzniua. That's what's considered modest. And if you're in a place…
8. 3:33You know, I don't know if there's a vaad tzniua that is officially put in charge…
9. 4:05fit in with the society. And when I went back to America, somebody said, "You're becoming…
10. 4:36And uh um the general idea is that you try to fit in. I'll take freshman…

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