Length of a Wig
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Question
Following up on the question about wigs. So, is the majority of the Haredi community today violating a prohibition? After all, there are almost no women (I'm not talking about the elderly) who wear a wig longer than the shoulder. Additionally, is what was relevant 20 years ago still applicable to our generation?
Answer
Shalom Rav,
As with other laws of modesty, the challenge becomes more difficult each year, but the law does not change.
The rabbis who wrote these laws lived with us until about 5 years ago, and despite the fact that the challenge was already more difficult then, they did not change their opinion. On the contrary, they strengthened and affirmed their opinion.
And after them, all their students, the poskim, including our teacher the Gaon, Rabbi Fried, shlita. And this Torah will not be changed.
It is important to remember that the more difficult the challenge, the greater the reward. And the words of Chazal "one good deed in distress is better than a hundred without distress" were said about each level of difficulty. That is, each additional challenge multiplies the reward more than a hundredfold.