Bring back the Lubavitcher headgear
Schneur Zalman of NY commenting to Wedding in Moscow:
In the memoirs of the late R. Israel Jacobson (in Hebrew, published by KEHOTH) of Ch, there is a note that the great Mashpiah Reb Nissan Neminov urgerd Anash upon leaving Russia in 1946 not to abandon the kasket (Russian peasant cap) and not to wear the fedora. Only when they came to Pocking a DP camp in Germany did the Russian Lubavitchers feel strange as they wore different head gear than the charedim from Hungary, Galicia and Poland. So they buckled under "peer" pressure and abandoned their levush that Stalin could not get them to change ! When Reb Mendel Futterfass came to the USA in 1962 he wore the kasket, later on there were about a dozen or so zikne Anash who still wore the kasket. Most Lubavitcher are into imitatio dei - that is copying the Boss and wore and still wear Al Capone type hats. More and more younger Chabad people (since 1994) just wear a middle sized modern type yarmulka reserving the hat for ritual occasions.
UPDATE: Shmarya asks� �Can one buy a kasket in America? If so, where? (And I don't mean a modified Greek Fisherman's Cap or a 'Fiddler' Cap.)�
I will have to look into importing. Meanwhile I propose some alternatives: perhaps this trusted brand of Borsalino or that, but here is my real recommendation.
In the memoirs of the late R. Israel Jacobson (in Hebrew, published by KEHOTH) of Ch, there is a note that the great Mashpiah Reb Nissan Neminov urgerd Anash upon leaving Russia in 1946 not to abandon the kasket (Russian peasant cap) and not to wear the fedora. Only when they came to Pocking a DP camp in Germany did the Russian Lubavitchers feel strange as they wore different head gear than the charedim from Hungary, Galicia and Poland. So they buckled under "peer" pressure and abandoned their levush that Stalin could not get them to change ! When Reb Mendel Futterfass came to the USA in 1962 he wore the kasket, later on there were about a dozen or so zikne Anash who still wore the kasket. Most Lubavitcher are into imitatio dei - that is copying the Boss and wore and still wear Al Capone type hats. More and more younger Chabad people (since 1994) just wear a middle sized modern type yarmulka reserving the hat for ritual occasions.
UPDATE: Shmarya asks� �Can one buy a kasket in America? If so, where? (And I don't mean a modified Greek Fisherman's Cap or a 'Fiddler' Cap.)�
I will have to look into importing. Meanwhile I propose some alternatives: perhaps this trusted brand of Borsalino or that, but here is my real recommendation.
posted by Tzemach Atlas at 8:25 PM
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