So I’m walking down the street in Baltimore this past shabbos and spotted a Jewish scarecrow.
Now how on earth could I tell it was Jewish you may ask!
Was it wearing a yarmulke? Was it holding a plate of kugel? Was it acting as a shadchun? Did it have a sign proclaiming to the world that it was Jewish?
Nope, but it had a sheitle on!
That’s right folks some ingenious woman had decided to make a scarecrow by sticking two of those Styrofoam sheitle heads onto sticks and then place a sheitle on top of them. If humans like myself are scared of sheitles I can only imagine what the crows were thinking as they aborted their garden eating mission.
I promise next time I am in Baltimore to get a picture.
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Is this the same lady in Baltimore who does the famous Chanukah house with all the Christmas lights? I wonder.
But what if the birds were idol worshiping ones? They would come flocking to the Indian hair wigs. Then we could all have idol poultry.
It is possible that the wig was made of Indian hair- does that mean we could put a red dot on the forehead of the fake head?
Utube- I have no idea.
We have to find the husband to this scarecrow. since she has a sheitel I assume she is married. Oh! she must have scared him off and now she doesnt have a get. So this person put up a scarecrow to show that there are many people out there who are an igunah and we should do something about it. or am I overinterpreting this.
Nope, we should put some fake bird droppings on the hair just to let the birds know where to go.
Mike I forgot to mention that one of the heads had no shietle- but it didnt have a yarmulke either so I wasn’t sure what to think.
lol
I’ve seen people do that on purim:
broomstick + sheitel head + Mask = partner
So the next time you find sheitel….now you know what to do with it!
Its funny because I wanted to make a chassidic couple pumpkin carving this year- some peyos and a turban is all you need.
Hey tell me where it is and ill take a pic
also you come to baltimore and don’t let us know. How could you not come to BAIS LUBAVITCH. You would come home with at least a weeks worth of Shul stories, because nothing mixes better than …….crothety old Chasidic men, Mashka ( booze), lots of screaming kids, and an amazing shul smell that is a mixture of herring and i don’t know what.