Tznius in Furs: What Judaism Has to Say About My Mink Coat

Tznius in Furs: What Judaism Has to Say About by Marjorie Ignall for tabletmagazine.com  http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/164717/fur-coats/2

This week for class I was assigned to read a few blogs, one of them is Tznius in Furs: What Judaism Has to Say About by Marjorie Ignall for tabletmagazine.com. It is the authors perspective on Jewish women wearing fur coats. She believes that it is okay that she wears a fur coat, because it was handed down to her by a family member. She also talks about how fur coats used to be the "Ferraris" for women. She goes on to talk about how wearing fur coats goes against הלכה in many ways and she does not believe that Orthodox Jewish women should be wearing any kind of furs.

I agree with the author, that it does go against הלכה. It goes against צינות (modesty) because furs are a symbol of status. Most women while wearing furs are basically flaunting how much money they have. They also go against  the laws of tza'ar baalei chaim (animal suffering). You are supposed to feed your animals first and when you do kill them for food you kill them in the most humane way possible. I think that killing animals for their skin and fur is selfish and definitely does not respect the animals like we are taught to do.