Wool Coat
It's from a Yeshivishe Lady who laments the fact that the "Oilom Ha'Torah" is no longer wearing Wool Coats and instead choose to wear Puffed Coats!
I'm not kidding! I did think that it must be a prank, but this back and forth in the Letters to the Editor responding to this crazed sicko has been going on for weeks!
This week she responds holding on to her bizarre rant about puffed coats!
Now this may very well be a prank, but either way, this is a microcosm on what is the thought process of Chardeim and their "Mesorah"!
Dear Editor
After reading the passionate responses to my letter about wool vs puffer coats, I want to apologize. Clearly, I did not do a good job explaining my position. I’m sorry. Hopefully I can clear things up.
The most common response was that wool coats “aren’t warm enough.” Give me a break. Our parents and grandparents wore wool in far colder climates than ours, and they survived just fine. Is it less convenient to wear traditional coats in this harsh winter weather? Maybe.
But sometimes you have to make sacrifices in order to uphold a higher ideal
We’ve seen this play out before.
The Haskalah did not begin overnight with open rejection of Shabbos, kashrus, or tsnius. It began with small “reasonable” adjustments to mesorah (like shortening the mechitzah), each one justified as harmless and practical.
We are fortunate that so-called “radical” yiddin stood firm against these “reasonable” adjustments and kept true to their mesorah. If not for them, where would we be today?
As I said before, “it’s just a coat” is never just a coat. When external standards erode in the name of convenience, standards of behavior soon follow. A person cannot remain firm internally when the externals change with the direction of the wind. Many of us have seen this happen to people we grew up with, or maybe even to ourselves. Pause for a moment and think. You’ll see that I’m right. Putting on a wool coat is a visible declaration that you are part of a mesorah that outlasts the immediate, here-and-now. The fact that it’s less convenient is even more of a reason to make the switch.
When a man carries himself with this clarity and conviction, it radiates outward: it steadies his marriage, and it earns the respect of his children. I urge everyone to think this over before jumping on the attack bandwagon.
Mesorah Defende
5 comments:
> The Haskalah did not begin overnight with open rejection of Shabbos, kashrus, or tsnius. It began with small “reasonable” adjustments to mesorah (like shortening the mechitzah), each one justified as harmless and practical.
Yes, and it really took off when the rabbinical leaders started screaming in response "If you don't like it, leave!" And they did.
This letter reminds me of another letter I saw on the old Deah v'Dibur website. It was written by a Bais Yaakov girl who recounted how she needed glasses and her bubbie bought her a fashionable pair. Well! She was immediately labelled by her teachers and classmates as a "modernisher" and shunned and excluded. How dare she not wear the right style and spit on our mesorah! She was in true pain.
And the websites response? Well it wasn't nice how she was treated but she had to understand she had it coming to her because she breached the modesty rules. Too bad!
Plenty of wool coats have the d'oraysa issur of Shaatnez. Puffer and similar fabric coats, generally are shaatnez free
Brainwashed cultists. Judaism did not begin in the Shtetls of Eastern Europe. They have taken a way of life that was forced upon poor impoverished Jews and adopted it as their religion. Whatever this is, it is not Yiddishkeit, but a perverted branch where virtue-signalling in wool coats and old fashioned glasses are more important than welfare and Yirus Shomayim. Absolutely lost,.
Actually, puffer coats often have reprocessed wool and polyester mixed with linen, which is impossible to take out short of just throwing out the filling.
This is the same paper that refused to print letters against assisted suicide. So their torah says "Puffed Coats" assur, ritzicha muter.
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