[Avodah] hat and coat

[Eli Turkel]

: I recently heard a mp3 talk on YUTorah by R. Benjamin Yudin about
: R. Dovid Lifshitz. He mentions that once a bochur visited R. Dovid's
: apartment . R. Dovid was eating breakfast in the kitchen without a
: jacket. When R. Dovid noticed the bochur, he immediately put on a jacket
: (hat I don't remember). It appears from this anecdote that R. Lifshitz
: would not have appeared in public without a jacket.

It is brought down that the Chatam Sofer was makpid that no one
outside of the immediate
family should see him without a coat.
I found it hard to believe a similar story about hats. Roshe Yeshiva
that I know gave shiur
wearing a Yarmulka. Micha can tell us about R. Lifscihtz.

However, some rabbonim wore a high type of yarmulka including I believe, RMF
and R. Lifschitz (please confirm). Hence, they may have felt this was equivalent
to a hat. Certainly one could not put a hat on top of this kind of
yarmulka as many
do for tefilla or bentching. Hecne, the story that R. Teitz brings
would be a proof
from R. Gifter and others but not from RMF.

-- 
Eli Turkel