Cairo Geniza


This is a document from the Cairo Geniza, containing a jurisprudential question addressed to the Jewish jurist Musa bin Maimon (Rambam), the physician of Sultan Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi.
‎And it is inferred from the document that the Jews of Egypt used to wear (the veil) as a measure of decency.

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