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Why is it that the Chofetz Chaim and thousands of jews in Lita and Poland were able to wear a simple hat that costs around $15 max, while we all 1000’s of people must buy expensive hats that cost a couple of hundred? And what about families with many boys? We can save our community millions if we’d all agree together to wear simple caps, at least for the weekdays. Dont even ask about those who wear biber hats! They go for like $400 or so! Why must everyone copy everyone else? And if we must, then let’s all stand up together and say: enough! We are going to save much money and much headache!
The cheap hats they sell Purim time that look similar for the real ones can actually pass for a real one.
So your question is “Why must everyone copy everyone else?” and your solution is “Let’s all agree to copy everyone else but copy something different than we are copying now”? You don’t have to copy everyone else. go buy whatever hat you would like.
In Belz the Rebbe made such a Takkanah [at least in Israel] for Bochurim to wear much cheaper and simpler hats, similar to the old European style. Married Belzers wear ‘beaver hats’. But now they only need to buy one per household. Last time I bought one it cost about $350. [I’m not Belz, but many other Chassidim also wear these hats.] In general Takkanos nowadays can only seriously gain traction in a Chassidish community. Aside from the fact that אם כבר, there are MUCH bigger and less necessary expenditures to cut first.
Because we choose to conform. Lol.
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