JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a shiur in his yeshiva, Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch slammed the practice of dressing up in inappropriate costumes on Purim.
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Rabbi Sternbuch said that “there are yeshiva bochurim who dress on Purim like secularists in the street but they look repulsive, I can’t even look at them dressed like that. They look like goyim or like secular Jews, they don’t want to be recognized as yeshiva bochurim.
“One needs to know that the clothes have an influence on a person’s character. Chazal say that when Amalek came to fight Israel, they switched their language to a Canaanite tongue so that Am Yisrael wouldn’t recognize them. The commentators ask why didn’t they switch their clothes. The Belzer rebbe answered that if they switched their clothes they would indeed have become Canaanites since clothes influence a person’s soul and the way a person dresses defines him.
“Therefore those who dress in cheap clothes are in big trouble and one must beware of dressing in street-style clothes since they are repulsive.
“On the contrary, it is a great Kiddush Hashem if a yeshiva student dresses and behaves like a Ben Torah on Purim, as our sages say “And you shall love Hashem your G-d- act so that Hashem’s name is revered because of you, see so-and-so how admirable are his actions, happy is the father who taught him Torah, happy is the rabbi who taught him Torah.
“This should be the desire of every yeshiva bachur to sanctify Hashem’s name and the reward for this is unfathomable,” Rabbi Sternbuch concluded.
Why sensationalize this with the word “slams”?? The Rov didn’t “slam” anything! He gave appropriate mussar and was moireh derech! When our own media is guilty of creating a false narrative, can we blame the goyim for following suit?
B”H I grew up before having fun on Purim was assered.
“if they switched their clothes they would indeed have become Canaanites”
This is nothing. In st Louis the reform are celebrating with a ‘drag queen Torah hour’ (instead of story hour)
Isn’t it purim?
Whatever it is, I’m against it!
HRH”G Groucho.
It’s actually in the reverse , that a person dresses like someone he really wants to be .
Clothes influence a person when he wears them on an ongoing basis; not when he puts them on as a comical costume.
People love to panic.
Finally someone fearless to say it as it is to the younger generation.
So should bochrim, kollelit & balebatim dress up at all?
If they can (should?) What are appropriate modes of purim costume?
Is this supposed to be a frum site, with all the disgusting comments about one of the greatest Poskim in our generation? Yuk.
George Santos went to the GOP Purim party in D.C. in a lace sheitl and pumps. Its outrageous! A fake Jewish drag queen. What a meshugha.
Fake Jew Santos wearing sheitel at Purim party! Oy
This Purim: a bus filled with yeshivah students, all dressed like prisoners from jail.
I did not like that, but I did not say anything, because nobody would listen to me.
What if someone mistakenly believed that those Jews were prisoners from jail?
Would that be a Kiddush HaShem, or the opposite?
“They look like goyim or like secular Jews”
Who could tell the difference?
Those bochurim should be threatened with being expelled
If this (& the other ones) keep this up it won’t be long before all the joy will be sucked out of Purim (except the joy of limud Torah).
If you don’t think this is a factor in kids going OTD, you are wrong.
This Rabbi better not dare rebuking an Israeli flag, neither on Purim nor on Yom-haAtzmaut nor at any other time.
Wearing an Israeli flag is the quintessential Jewish mode of dressing.