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The question of the London journalist: Why are you wearing these clothes?

When a famous journalist asked the "Ben Ish Chai" a question about his clothes, he explained to her: "I want to dress like the first person, a sign and a respectable sign."

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David Berger, in collaboration with Shuva Israel

Wednesday, 03 February 2021, 12:55

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The preservation of Jewish dress is very important in Judaism, and as it is written in the Midrash: "By virtue of four things Israel was redeemed from Egypt, who did not change their name, did not change their language and dress and did not speak slander."

The Admor Rabbi Josiah Pinto explains the matter according to a story that happened to the late "Ben Ish Chai".

And so Rabbi Pinto recounted: "As is known in the deed of our Rabbi the 'Son of a Living Man' A great journalist from London, who heard a lot about the great light of our Rabbi 'Ben Ish Chai'.

After a deep speech, she was very impressed and stood and said to him - I have met kings and counts and rich and judges, but I have not met a wise and prudent man like you.

I have one question - why do you wear these clothes and not renew with nice clothes, worthy of progress and the new world?

Our Rabbi 'Ben Ish Chai' answered and said to her - I want to dress as the first man dressed, which is the sign and the honorable sign and pleasure and she.

And so the garment I wear, the first man wore. "

Interesting question, wise answer (Photo: ShutterStock)

Rabbi Pinto continued to expand: "Thus in every land, the Jews kept their garments not to resemble the nations of the world and it is said, that they did not change their name, tongue and garment. The garment has great power over man, and the Gemara says if "To color, we give our lives and we will not be replaced, as three transgressions that he will kill and not pass - incest, bloodshed and foreign work. On a shoelace we will not change color from color to color, even if it costs life."

"And so every generation and every state, the people of Israel differed not to be like all the nations and kept the garment. And when they immigrated to the Land of Israel they wanted to build everything mixed, that all Israel one. And so the whole yeshiva world and Torah world That this attire signifies and signifies, I am a Torah follower, "he wrote at the end.

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