Reply To: Sign Of The Times?(!)

BP Totty, while I do not frequent a tish all that often, (as a child my father took me to one Rabbi Deutsch’s Purim tisch in Detroit every year), I do get together with friends every Shabbat. As to euqating a book with a sefer, please understand that the distinction is a very blurred one for me, as I rarely, if ever, read anything that does not have Jewish content in it; be it Jewish history, philosophy, Halacha etc. I also, for leisure, read books in Hebrew and sometimes Yiddish (if I’m feeling brace enough and determined enough to work my way through it). Sorry for that confusion. While I didn’t intend to get into the particulars of my sartorial choices, the trouses in question were a pair of starched a pressed cotton Izod pants, the shirt was green plain (I don’t remember the label) and the blue blazer was Ralph Lauren, bought as the Syms bash a few years ago. the shoes were Timberland loafers and I wore socks since I was staying for Mincha. A rabbi I greatly respect once criticized me for coming to schul without socks and it stuck.

As to the shorts, they seemed more appropriate for jumping on the trampoline with my two year old and rolling around with him on the grass. I’m not especially worried that I might be punished for my disrespect of the holy day. I can’t imagine anything sweeter and more fulfilling, not in this world nor the next, than seeing his smile and hearing him laugh when we play. That’s when I connected with G-d on His day.