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CMV: When Hasidic Jewish women wear wigs, it defeats the purpose of not showing their hair.

I really want to understand this, especially if I've got it wrong.

As I understand it, there is a belief in Hasidic Judaism that a woman's hair is sexually enticing, and so women are expected to keep it covered.  That I get, but I don't see how wearing a wig is really seen as an appropriate covering.  A wig, by design, is meant to simulate an authentic head of human hair.  How, then, is a wig not every bit as enticing as the real thing?

No disrespect is intended with this question.  I just really want to know.  Hasidic Judaism is very fascinating to me.  I have a limited knowledge of it, but I love much of what I have seen so far.  Thank you for your time.
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One thing you learn as a religious Jew, (I say as someone who is no longer really Jewish at all) is that Judaism is all about playing to the letter of the rule rather than the "spirit". Often, you're not supposed to even claim to know what the spirit of a rule actually is: God says what God says and it's not necessarily anything humans could possibly understand. (Weirdly enough this even happens in cases where the prohibition was made by rabbis trying to put some distance between people and the actual prohibition in the Bible, where they usually explained their reasoning fairly clearly.)

This leads to things like putting up a cord up on posts all around a town because that halachically counts as a "wall" sufficient to make the town a single "building" and therefore get around the prohibition on carrying things on Shabbat.

Which is to say, yes, a wig is probably as sexually enticing as actual hair. But the prohibition isn't on showing a wig, or on being sexually enticing, it's on showing your hair. The purpose of not showing your hair is to not show your hair. To even say it's not to be sexually enticing is to miss the point.