QUESTION:
I am a Sephardic baal teshuvah and I am very drawn to Chassidus. I very much want to start dressing Chassidish because I am drawn towards this way of dress. I love the big round streimel and the long jacket. No one dresses Chassidish where I live though, so I’m not sure if this is the right thing to do. I don’t feel at peace with wearing a short jacket, I feel like it’s not the true Jewish look and that it doesn’t make us feel separate enough from the style of the goyim.
ANSWER:
The main thing by you should be the development of your olam pnimi (inner world), your inner avodah. Sometimes a person also needs external factors in his avodah, but one has to be very careful with the external parts, because it can cause a person to be too involved with the external aspects, causing a person to lose his inner balance, and sometimes it also causes a person to be mistaken about his priorities, turning what’s secondary into priority and turning priority into something secondary.
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