Reply To: Where did you buy your Shabbos hat?

It would be for Shabbos honour. Not straw, no. I’ve been looking at pics last day. Fedora hats, they’re called?

Would it be better to buy from a Jewish store rather than any shop? Are the staff who make them Jewish? What if they were thinking of dogs or baking cakes or something lewd — would that impart to the hat wearer?

The Baal Shem Tov was once consulted by a community whose Sefer Torah kept becoming posul. He said the sofer was thinking of his dogs as he wrote it and would never stay kosher. Something like that.