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Avi K
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If we would follow the ways of the Tora and not pasul everyone who is not exactly like us we would have much more to celebrate (my English teachers said that “a lot” is a parcel of land).

What are your sources? Do you know that “Chassidic dress” is a copy of the dress of the Polish aristocracy of 300 years ago (the only levush yehudi today is jeans as they were invented by Levi Strauss when he saw that miners needed strong pants – trousers to British-speakers)? Do you know that (at least according to Agnon)the Polish authorities mandated the streimel because they thought that it was a sign of disgrace? Do you know that many gedolei Tora wore short suit jackets – and this is, in fact, the norm in the Lithuanian yeshiva world? Do you know that in mussar yeshivot it was actually assur for a bachur to grow a beard as it was considered gaava?