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  • #597328
    nystatetrooper
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    On a first date should the boy keep on his hat(they are sitting)

    #776005
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    It depends what type of car he’s driving.

    #776006
    ZeesKite
    Participant

    No

    #776007
    dunno
    Member

    From experience, most don’t.

    #776008
    ZeesKite
    Participant

    It depends how many times the question is posted!

    #776009
    nystatetrooper
    Participant

    Daas yochid:he actually doesn’t drive

    #776010
    TweetTweet
    Participant

    It depends if he has hair or if he’s bald

    #776011
    Toi
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    protocol in the general yeshivish world calls for the hat to be left on for the whole first date. Don’t judge a guy negatively if he does. Some would dump him outright for not leaving it on.

    #776012
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    Daas yochid:he actually doesn’t drive

    Well, then, according to one poster, it’s hopeless anyway.

    I know a guy who didn’t take off his hat until the vort. He was bald.

    #776013
    nystatetrooper
    Participant

    Okay so the guy has actually gorgeus hair

    #776014
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    Okay so the guy has actually gorgeus hair

    Then he’ll probably take off his hat in the taxi so it shouldn’t get messed up.

    #776015
    TweetTweet
    Participant

    Come on- If he could take off his coat, why can’t he take off his hat? It’s not like he’s davening or something. I guess it depends on the guy, but I think it sure makes the situation, which already has it’s share of awkwardness, a little more relaxed.

    #776016
    Toi
    Participant

    Ya but someone else might dump him. I say play it safe. He can take it off on date 2

    #776017
    mamashtakah
    Member

    Why does he need to wear a hat on a date? Is this halacha?

    #776018
    cshapiro
    Member

    wtvr u do, just be confident and be urself…if ur not comfortable wearing it the whole time, i say take it off and leave it in the backseat of the car…but please note, this is coming from a girl who only one of my dates were a hat ever!!

    #776019
    real-brisker
    Member

    mamash – Who mentioned anything about halacha?

    #776020
    mamashtakah
    Member

    R-B, if it’s not halacha, then why wear a hat on a date?

    #776021
    Pac-Man
    Member

    Wearing a necktie or shoes is also not halacha.

    #776022
    Dovid S.
    Member

    Shoes? (Were you being serious?) If not, then I say :

    Red cowboy hat, green shirt, purple pants, orange/black striped tie, fake mustache, golden shoes, yellow socks, gray gloves.

    Who agrees with me?

    #776023
    hanib
    Participant

    zeeskite: lol!

    #776024
    mamashtakah
    Member

    Wearing a necktie or shoes is also not halacha.

    That’s entirely true. One can wear sandals and skip the tie.

    #776025
    Pac / Man
    Member

    If one wear sandals and skips the tie (over his Hawaiian shirt – also not against halacha, right?), then even I agree there is nothing wrong if he takes off his Borsalino hat when sitting down with with the girl on their first date.

    #776026
    bombmaniac
    Participant

    college is assur

    #776027
    real-brisker
    Member

    mamash – Correct, and one can choose not to wear a hat as well.

    #776028
    bpt
    Participant

    Its a nice gesture to remove one’s hat during the National Anthem. He should replace it afterwards, (tilted back, brim flipped up)

    That way, there’s no chance he’ll forget to replace it when making a shehakol / boreh nefashos.

    #776029
    quark2
    Member

    college is mutar.

    (even if there are women in the college this is a case of lekah darkah achrinah, bava basra nun zain amud beis, like anyone who has learned the sugyah knows.)

    #776030
    Pac-Man
    Member

    Rama 246:4, Birkas Shmuel (Kiddushin #27 p.42), Kovetz Shiurim II:47, etc. pasken college is assur. Rav Moshe Feinstein ZT’L also denounced college in a Teshuva, and in a famous speech delivered to his students, published under the title “The Counsel of the Wicked” (Vaad LeHaromas Keren HaTorah, New York, 1978). There is a tape available in many Seforim stores called “The prohibition to learn in Colleges” (Yiddish), which contains addresses by Rav Moshe Feinstein ZT’L and Rav Aharon Kotler ZT’L condemning college.

    #776031
    mamashtakah
    Member

    Why not close this thread now, since we’ve made the obligatory topic change to something more controversial?

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