Q&A: How Far Down Should a Skirt Go
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How Far Down Should a Skirt Go
Question
Hello Rabbi, the author of the Mishnah Berurah writes that the “shok” is the part from the knee and upward, whereas most halakhic decisors hold that it is the lower part. This is a dispute about how to understand the reality referred to by the Talmud when it said that a woman’s shok is considered nakedness. How can I decide who is more correct in this dispute, and on what basis?
Answer
I have no idea. Maybe you need to look for other occurrences of the word “shok” and try to learn from there. I haven’t done that.