Thank you for this excellent video. As a Japanese Christian woman, I participate in the church service wearing a kimono, a traditional costume, and a veil on my head. Through the practice of head covering, I, as well as other veiled sisters, have experienced a real inner transformation as a woman. I believe that these testimonies show that the order of God's creation, symbolized by the head covering, is a universal truth that transcends race, culture, and time. Metaphysical meaning infuse this eternal symbol. May God bless you abundantly.

Thank you so much for uploading this. I started covering my head within the last year by conviction, and I'm currently the lone woman in our church that does so. This video will be so useful to share with the other women when they question coverings. You've done a fantastic job sharing the insights of various theologians. Great job!

@sherid.7473

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Also, I want to add that I wholeheartedly agree with what you said at the very end. The outward symbol helps remind us of the inward realities. When my head is covered, it's a constant reminder of the role between men and women, husbands and wives.

I wander and stutter a bit at the end (last 10 minutes?) where I was less prepared. May you find it helpful nonetheless!

Great presentation Aaron! Love how you handled the question at the end. Thanks for mentioning my book in the description.

This was very helpful and thorough thank you so much for this work!!

Great collection of quotes through the ages.

Very helpful, thank you!

Wow this was good, thanks. It's a subject I never thought about.

Thank you for this, I'll use it in some (hopefully) interesting conversations. I assume you've been thorough and honest in your examples, and if so, it seems clear to me that what was once a widely understood doctrine it became somehow unclear and up to debate at the same time the feminists movements were appearing. So I wonder if this was thanks to some new light and understanding of Scripture or if it was another example of Christians making life easier for themselves by complying with modern ideologies. We are told in Scripture and tradition that we must be saints, meaning that we must be separated from the world, but I see time and time again Christians doing the exact opposite.

I have a question, or rather a questioning preponderance. I know that it was already common for Jewish women to cover their hair in synagogue, in prayer and often in public, though given the archeological evidence, not every woman did so in public and it didn't seem to be a huge issue outside of daily prayers and synagogue. (Though I can't find any command or instruction from Yahweh to a prophet or patriarch that women should do it at all, but only in the Talmud which is not part of the tanakh and so not really sure where it came from prior to Corinthians.) My assumption is that Paul would think of the head coverings of his day, but there's a huge range of variations there. Some were worn tightly around all the hair like a large bag, some were small bandana styles that left most of the hair uncovered, some were the flowy Grecia style that showed the front and really wasn't effective at concealing hair, if that was the intention, which I see no indication that it was, but all covered the crown of the head, and I'm wondering if there is some doctrinal rationale for the crown of the head specifically being covered?

It wasn’t uncommon in ancient times for women of almost any culture to wear a head covering for practical and modest reasons. It wasn’t a shocking or dramatic observance or tradition. Jewish women wore their hair covered after marriage for generations before this passage. What WAS odd ( and I’ve never heard this acknowledged) was an observant Jew, St. Paul, urging men to REMOVE their head covers when they pray. THAT always seemed the more significant part because it is a dramatic change in practice. Did St. Paul abandon the use of the phylactery or tefillin and prayer cloth at the same time as becoming Christian?

@AaronShafovaloff1

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On this Paul seems countercultural. It's hard to argue that he was wholesale-accommodating or entirely appropriating existing cultural practices. The culture was already diverse on the matter of female coverings (there were differences in Greek/Roman/Jewish practice) and occasions for uncovering. It seems more likely that Paul was standardizing a practice and making an appeal to nature (most directly the corresponding natural propriety of hair length) to support it.

@adamhorstman3398

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Hello Aaron how are you doing my man? A few questions that come to mind 1. What was the typical Jewish stance on the matter? Did Jewish girls veil during synagogue services or all the time? When did they begin doing so, when they became women or after the marriage etc? 2. Did the girls of Christian parents veil during worship, all the time, after puberty, or after they got married? 3. do we not have enough information to get into the weeds and perhaps practices were a bit varied?

@AaronShafovaloff1

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@@adamhorstman3398 Hi, Adam! RE: kids covering. I don't know what the Jewish practice was.

You skipped where men should NOT be covered.

@AaronShafovaloff1

3 ай бұрын

The symmetry is indeed important. For Paul, when men are expected to uncover, women are expected to cover.