[Avodah] Hat and jacket

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:18:12AM +0000, Dov Kaiser wrote:
: 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. Perhaps one of his
: talmidim can confirm.

I picture that's true, altough we never discussed the topic.

However, I would distinguish between that maaseh rav and this one:
: I was once told by a former talmid of R. Shmuel Rozovsky (who, for the
: record, wore a grey frak) that R. Shmuel once saw a bochur...

I don't think R' Dovid saw this as an obligation on a "ben Torah" but
rather part of being a rebbe, including the awkward job of teaching
talmidim about kavod for their rebbe. Rather than announce "give me
kavod", it's useful to just exude it.

Total guesswork, but informed guesswork.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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