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As a Messianic Jew, let me point out a piece of Jewish tradition that may help shed some light on this issue. In the same verses that Paul directs women to cover their heads in prayer, he also instructs men just as strongly to never cover their heads in prayer. However, Jewish men, today as then, ALWAYS cover their heads when they pray.



I am admittedly ignorant of much of Scripture, but can this practice of covering one's head for prayer be supported by the Mosaic Law? I don't recall ever having come across such a command. Perhaps Jewish custom is wrong on this point.

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To a Jew, it is unthinkable, irreverent, strictly forbidden, a sin of the highest order, to come before God in prayer with an uncovered head. Because of this, I think we can safely assume that both our Lord Jesus and the Apostle Paul practiced this "religiously" (since we have no clear statement that they rejected it as false).



I don't know that we can so safely assume it. It was sin, according to Pharisaical tradition, to fail to wash the hands before eating. But the disciples did not, and Jesus condemned the Pharisees (cf. Matt 15).


Kyle

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified.