tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345202358783241386.post4870411451528273116..comments2023-08-15T09:20:12.403-07:00Comments on Pesach Sheini: If the Hat Doesn't Fit- Being real with myselfPesach Sommerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05429802587338023317noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345202358783241386.post-30271749645235275112014-08-20T06:36:55.069-07:002014-08-20T06:36:55.069-07:00Again, not saying anything about Passaic, other th...Again, not saying anything about Passaic, other than that it has a strong yeshivish community and that I have changed. Plenty of people don't wear hats, and in some shuls, it is the majority who don't.Pesach Sommerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05429802587338023317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345202358783241386.post-43033629870931303612014-08-20T05:15:20.484-07:002014-08-20T05:15:20.484-07:00I've seen guys in Passaic in flipflops on Shab...I've seen guys in Passaic in flipflops on Shabbos. Not in shul, but hanging out in the afternoon. Must have been visitors from out of town :)tesyaahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08411240806288272179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345202358783241386.post-25772934361625524022014-08-19T19:59:51.624-07:002014-08-19T19:59:51.624-07:00As far as I am aware, hats are not required in Pas...As far as I am aware, hats are not required in Passaic, and plenty of people there don't wear a hat. Am I incorrect about that?<br /><br />In my case, I don't like wearing pants and shoes. I much prefer shorts and sandals (which ironically, Avraham Avinu and Moshe Rabbeinu also wore - well maybe not shorts, but a kind of wrap-around garment that reached the knees or thereabouts), especially in the heat (most of the year around here). And the only times I wear a hat is to protect my bald head from the sun, and it is invariably a baseball cap of some sort.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05760733574758883958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345202358783241386.post-67228498566454432492014-08-19T07:29:26.230-07:002014-08-19T07:29:26.230-07:00This is my exact experience. To me the hat isn'...This is my exact experience. To me the hat isn't something that represents my ideology, but a specific cultural representation of that ideology. I still believe in the same Judaism, in the same torah, the same halacha, I still keep shabbos, kashrus, I still put on tefillin, but the culture I used to subscribe to built around the observance of these laws is not the same culture I currently subscribe to. The hat to me is representative of that culture, and wearing it made me feel like a liar, like I was wearing something alien, something that misrepresented me horribly. I hated wearing it. I hated the culture it represented. <br /><br />Like the author, I began not taking it with me when I traveled, then I stopped wearing it around friends, then I switched to a shul that didn't care which cultural symbol I wore on my head, as long as I wore something. Then I stopped wearing it around my family. And now I feel like I'm accurately representing the kind of jew that I am, and I'm so much happier.bombmaniachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10960811134463272474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345202358783241386.post-82078573240349092872014-08-19T07:00:57.286-07:002014-08-19T07:00:57.286-07:00Not following.Not following.Pesach Sommerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05429802587338023317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2345202358783241386.post-90629380479924018142014-08-18T21:54:17.880-07:002014-08-18T21:54:17.880-07:00Wow, I could have written this entire article myse...Wow, I could have written this entire article myself... except instead of the "hat" for me it is the shoes. Search and replace hat with shoes and this is my article!Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06705714122751034120noreply@blogger.com