“Is it better to daven with that kind of hat than not wear one at all? What about stains on the jacket? A stained tie? I was actually embarrassed at the way some of these gentlemen dressed in the name of “kavod.”
Say what you want about how people here in Israel dress to daven, but I’ll take it any day of the week.Maybe some of the men do show up in jeans, and maybe there are teenagers who have hair that’s a bit long. But they come to minyan. Every day. They sit in shule between mincha and ma’ariv every evening and learn. They learn in shule at night. I still say it’s what’s in your heart.”
Now let’s see…to wear jeans & a filthy tee shirt with you ugly toes sticking out of your sandals IS kavod?
Clearly not.
Do the people with the stained jacket & tie & smashed hat not come to minyan every day? Do they not sit in shule between mincha and ma’ariv every evening and learn? Do they not learn in shule at night? Is it not in their heart as well?
The answer is that every sect has chesronos.
If so, why would you take the jeans, tee shirt & ugly toes “any day of the week”?
Why not just cut out the baloney & say it straight out – you don’t like chareidim & are lacking in ahavas yisroel.