“M a take a look at this!” Nine-year-old Racheli pulls me over to the couch. Her little finger touches a picture of Rebbetzin Elyashiv in the book Rebbetzin Kanievsky: A Legendary Mother to All.
Moe delivers a kosher food package to Rob Morgenstern — who turns out to be the rude woman from the train,
“M a take a look at this!” Nine-year-old Racheli pulls me over to the couch. Her little finger touches a picture of Rebbetzin Elyashiv in the book Rebbetzin Kanievsky: A Legendary Mother to All.
“Look at this tichel she’s wearing. It’s sooo big” she says pointing to a picture of a lady in a high tichel adorned with a gem. “And here’s a pic of Rebbetzin Levin wife of Rav Aryeh and she’s also wearing a tichel.”
“Wow” I say as I join her on the couch. “Imagine that. Such choshuve ladies wearing tichels. There’s another” I say rising from the couch to show her a book with tichel-clad Rebbetzin Auerbach.
I haven’t made too much progress with Dassi on the tichel front so I’m happy that at least one daughter seems interested. “Racheli” I say “it’s not just the chassidim or the Sephardim or the dati-leumi women who wear tichels. Wives of roshei yeshivah wear them too.”
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