MW13, not a bash at all. I daven and learn in this community, I support the tzedakos and kollelim, and it is just my impression that we are so afraid of change and locked into a system of arbitrary markers that we miss the mark. A talmid chacham should dress in “beged naeh ve’naki” and it this can’t be achieved with the Al Capone style due to widespread poverty, why can there not be an alternative. Things change with time and circumstance. The Mirer in Lita (as the photos show) dressed in grey suits and grey hats, no doubt because that was the only choice available. Hasidim wore some other style before the Levush became accepted. Hats of the 60s had half inch brims, and chrain, unknown to the Asian chazal, substituted for maror because that was all that was available in the permafrost. And last but not least, my cotton floppy hat is BLACK.
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