To Purchase this Sefer Click here Introduction:[1] The wearing of a head covering is a Jewish custom dating back to thousands of years. It is recorded in the Talmud[2] and is the symbol that differentiates a Jew from gentile. The following is a treatise on this subject. [1] Kama 2/7, 46/2; Basra 2/6 [2] Kiddushin […]
Story about Menachem Nochum
To purchase this Sefer, click here A Maaseh Shehaya:[1] In the days of the Alter Rebbe it became accustomed to wear a certain style leather coat with a silk exterior called a Katinke. Prior to the wedding of Menachem Nachum, the grandson of the Alter Rebbe, the Alter Rebbe summoned […]
Wearing a hat and jacket
Wearing a hat The custom of wearing a hat over the Yarmulke: It is customary amongst pious Jews to walk with two head coverings and they thus wear a hat over their Yarmulke. [1] This custom is followed by Chassidim.[2] The Talmudic source of this custom:[3] The source for […]
Bindel
To purchase this Sefer, click here Wearing an inner Gartel:[1] Some are accustomed to constantly wear a Gartel under their shirt, over their Tzitzis.[2] Nevertheless this is not the Chabad custom.[3] However it is accustomed amongst Chabad to wear an elastic [“Bindel”] over the Tzitzis in order to prevent it […]
Tight fitting pants and Jeans
To purchase this Sefer, click here Tight pants and underpants:[1] The Gemara[2] implies that it is forbidden for men to wear pants unless they are made like Batei Shukayim[3].[4] [This however only refers to pants that are made with a special pocket that is tightly fitted for the size of […]
A Modest Haircut
To purchase this Sefer, click here A modest Haircut: [1] [One may not get a haircut, or grow out his hair in a way that is accustomed by gentiles.] Thus one may not grow dreadlocks[2], or a ponytail[3], or give himself a Mohawk [or mushroom] haircut. [1] Michaber 178 [2] Lit. Tzitzis […]
Shoes
To purchase this Sefer, click here The importance of wearing shoes: [1] The sages[2] said that one who does not place shoes on his feet is considered excommunicated from G-d.[3] A person should even sell all that he has [even the walls of his house[4]] in order to buy shoes for […]
Cleanliness and neatness
To purchase this Sefer, click here Cleanliness of the clothing:[1] One should not wear clothing which is dirty, lest he be disparaged in the eyes of others. Not to be dressed sloppy:[2] It is proper[3] [for every person[4] to be careful[5]] to dress and look decent in order so he […]
Price and style
To purchase this Sefer, click here The price and style of the clothing:[1] One should not wear expensive clothing as this brings a person to haughtiness. Nevertheless one is also not to wear very cheap [low class] clothing in order so he is not disparaged in the eyes of […]
Color of clothing
To purchase this Sefer, click here The color of the clothing: Black colored clothing: [1] Black colored clothing is modest and humble[2] and hence is proper to be worn. Red colored clothing: Red colored clothing is forbidden to be worn as they are worn by the gentiles for purposes of […]
