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.
12 responses so far ↓
1 utubefan // Jun 30, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Is this the same lady in Baltimore who does the famous Chanukah house with all the Christmas lights? I wonder.
2 Child Ish Behavior // Jun 30, 2008 at 1:18 pm
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.
3 heshman // Jun 30, 2008 at 1:49 pm
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.
4 Mikeinmidwood // Jun 30, 2008 at 2:20 pm
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.
5 Child Ish Behavior // Jun 30, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Nope, we should put some fake bird droppings on the hair just to let the birds know where to go.
6 heshman // Jun 30, 2008 at 3:53 pm
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.
7 sharona // Jun 30, 2008 at 6:09 pm
lol
8 Future Druggie // Jun 30, 2008 at 6:29 pm
I’ve seen people do that on purim:
broomstick + sheitel head + Mask = partner
9 A Jewish Music Insider // Jul 1, 2008 at 9:27 am
So the next time you find sheitel….now you know what to do with it!
10 heshman // Jul 1, 2008 at 9:32 am
Its funny because I wanted to make a chassidic couple pumpkin carving this year- some peyos and a turban is all you need.
11 sheva // Jul 2, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Hey tell me where it is and ill take a pic
12 sheva // Jul 2, 2008 at 9:17 pm
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.
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