Bemused, a nochri doesn’t necessarily think a Yid looks like a fool just because he is wearing a yarmulke. But if it is 90 + degrees outside and he is in a black hat and suit, it might raise more than a few nochri eyebrows, and potentially stir up anti-Semitism. I can almost guarantee no Jew dressed this way in Moshe Rabbeinu’s time, as there was no such mode of dress for ANYONE in those days. It is possible that the downward spiral of this generation that Joseph mentioned, is in part precisely because of irrational and arbitrary customs of dress that not only make no sense, but can mamesh lead to heat stroke. I personally do not care if you or anyone else want to dress this way. It makes you feel more heilig, fine. It makes you focus more on Hashem, also fine. But when one thinks he or any other Jew is superior because of this levush, that is not fine. Much of the so-called Jewish levush was taken from the European Goyim, of yesteryear, anyway.So what happened to b’chukoseihem lo seileichu?
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