Will Hill: Self-intuitive??? What exactly is that supposed to mean, and how does it have a halachic basis?
NotPashut: I didn’t like the tone of your language towards Oomis. Divrei Chachamim Bnachas Nishmaim.
UJM: Did you notice that the mechaber says even a straw yarmulka is sufficient. The Mishna Berurah prefaces his remarks with the very important word “Byameinu”. He says nowadays (meaning in the days of the Chofetz Chaim, about 75 years ago) since people then walked in the steet with a hat, one should also wear one by davening.
However, in 2009 when people do not walk in the street with a hat, why in the world shouldn’t it revert back to the mechaber’s din? BTW, I can imagine someone misreading the mishna berurah even worse and coming up with that a din that the mishna berurah holds one must even wear a hat in the street.
Are you all telling me that the hesder boys who do not wear hats are bad Jews?
In addition, I will not believe Reb Chaim Kanievsky paskened one should miss minyan unless someone shows me that in black and white. I am talking a teshuvah with sources, not a second or third hand account of what someone asked and the answer he received. Reb Moshe wrote his reasons in his own hand for all to see.