openminded

I am a young man of 21 years and have recently started wearing jeans only a few months ago. Throughout my yeshiva years we were always told what is “proper” for a ben torah to do and wear outside of yeshiva. One day it finally hit me that these ideals were being shoved down my throat without reason or discussion as to why the hanhala felt this is the proper way. When I attended beis medrash in israel I asked a rebbi of mine as to why the jewish uniform has become white shirts and black pants and he had no directanswer for me. How many times have we gone to shul and seen the kid or young man with no hat or crocs or jeans and say to ourselves “I wonder where that guy is going wrong”. But at the same tine there are five other people who are wearing the same thing yet are davening ten times better than you are and not looking at everyone else but rather are concentrating on the tefilla. Some may say that it is beacause of the way society portrays jeans that they are bad. I say it is because of society that we now judge a person and the level he is on solely on the clothing he wears.