“No matter which side you’re on (tzedakah receiver, giver, or ineligible): learn the Beis HaLevi’s Maamar Habitachon. It’s oxygen”
I wanted to comment on the article criticizing the cost and beauty of sheitlach and shtreimlach. They’re not the same. A shtreimel is a chassidishe levush, and there’s meaning behind each of the chassidishe levushim. While you can indeed be yotzei the minhag with a hundred-dollar shtreimel, a more beautiful one is seen as hiddur mitzvah. Most chassidishe rebbes wear well-made, expensive shtreimlach.
A beautiful sheitel is very, very different. Wearing a more beautiful sheitel isn’t a hiddur mitzvah. On the contrary! And most chassidishe rebbetzins don’t wear sheitlach at all.
F. G.
Antwerp
I’m backing the letter by Gitel Moses in which she said she’s willing to simplify the simchahs she’s making… as long as she’s the second person to start the trend.
For two weeks during one summer a few years back, Yad Eliezer, together with an anonymous benefactor, experimented with the trailblazing idea of holding weddings on Erev Shabbos, as a way of making them more simple. The goal of the project was that this would become the norm.
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