«The Baal Shem Tov—A Brief Biography». www.chabad.org(engelsk). Besøkt 3. januar 2021. «But Yisrael Baal Shem was far from an ordinary healer. As much as he aimed to cure his patients' physical illnesses, he sought to heal their ailing spirits. Yisrael taught them the importance that the Torah places on optimism and joy and encouraged them in their service of G‑d. It was this unique, twofold pursuit that earned Yisrael Baal Shem the additional, affectionate title "tov" ("good"), thus giving rise to his popular name—Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem Tov.»
Bensoussan, Barbara (15. februar 2007). «Flipped Over the Wig». OU Life(engelsk). Besøkt 21. mai 2024. «A woman, in order to be modest and to reserve the full measure of her beauty for her husband, had to cover her hair. . . with more hair? | My husband has a second good reason to nix the wig; he happens to be Sephardic, and several prominent Sephardic rabbis have ruled that wearing a wig is not a Sephardic custom. In our shul, which attracts a yeshiva-type Sephardic crowd, most of the women who wear wigs top them with a little hat or beret, Chasidic-style, to make it clear there is something covering the hair. One of them told me quite apologetically, “I wanted to cover my hair with only a scarf or beret, but it never looked good on me. My family comes from Egypt, where the Arabs all wore headscarves, so the scarf always felt very Arab to me—like the housemaid. So I finally bought a wig, but I added the hat.”»
