Reply To: Mesorah and Levush

My Rebbi, the Matersdorfer Rav, Rav Shmuel, ztz’l wore a gartel under his beketcher. A pasul sefer Torah has an outside gartel. We have an expression in Hungarian being a pope over the pope by making themselves more religious than the father. I do wear a atarah on the talis (received as a present from my son) that my father did not