Clothing

Advice to ministers, counselors and advisors: change your clothes

Jewish mystics teach that by dressing in a proper manner we increase loving-kindness in the world.

"What should I wear today - the black jacket or the blue?" How boring! Where's the individuality? Where's the freedom of expression? Do you people have no originality at all?

Among the chassidim of Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch (the “Tzemach Tzedek,” 1789–1866) was a businessman whose dealings took him to the business centers of the large cities of Russia, as well as to several foreign capitals. As time went by, he became...

The jacket was the right size, just my color, had a designer label, and was reduced to a price you just couldn’t resist . . .

Why do very religious men wear long black garments only, even in summertime? I mean, doesn't it get sort of hot?

Man is the only truly clothed creature—a creature who attires him- or herself not only for warmth and protection, but to alter, enhance, even transform, his very identity.

Whatever for does Jacob need "the dew of heaven and the fat of the land," anyway?

How clothing makes the person and the garments of our soul.

The very purpose of a garment is to conceal the inner core and portray an external facade.