Williamsburg, NY – A thief stole the fancy holiday hat off a Hasidic man’s head on Oct. 2 first night of Yom Tov Sukkas.
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The victim was walking from synagogue at around 9:30 pm and was near Wallabout Street and Throop Avenue when two young men approached him from behind. One of them lifted the man’s shtreimel, a fur hat with a $1,200 price tag, then both ran off.
Police are still searching for the suspects.
I think that Shomrim has to organize again during Shabbos and YomTov as they used to do it in the early years
Hint: If a goy approaches you offering you a streimel for sale, it may be him.
siman min hashamayim that we have no buiss. buying such expensive hats/head coverings . there is no excuse for this ball tashchis especially is todays matzav! If the rabbonim can say that a kallah should get a CZ and not a real diamond then the same should apply to a shtreimel
“A fur hat with a 1200$ price tag”
So he is a satmerer with the new takunes
I guess the thief will have to sell it on the black (hat) market………
$1,200 for a streimel? Maybe it’s time to start making synthetic streimels!
Hint: Should we be walking around in Golus wearing $1000 hats?
Tell him next time to take the price tag off
Was the shtreimel insured?
Which goy wants a striemel it is prob a hate crime and they stole it to hurt a yid
they can use it Chas vsholom to look chassidic and enter an area for a pigua. Hashem Yishmareinu
One thing no one is talking about is the poor animals that are killed to make the shetreimel
B”H
I would never wear a streimel I think they look funny but bif someone wants to express dedication to hashem by spending 1000 on clothing …. great!
better than spending on gashmius not connected to mitzvah
(cars.. suits…. electronics….)
I don’t understand. They could have just asked me nicely. I would have gladly relinquished mine. Who needs such monstrosoties on ones head for a full day???????
$1,000 for a shtreimel is expensive, but it lasts for so many years. My husband is wearing his for 10 years now, and it still looks pretty new. He takes care of it. It could easily last another 10 years for a total of 20 years (or more) – which would be an average of $50 a year. A goy could easily spend that much money a year on baseball caps and what-not. I don’t see the problem, but I also don’t have a problem if they make cheap synthetics, as long as they look nice enough for Shabbos and Yom Tov. And if it makes it easier for couples to get married, then I think synthetics are good for everyone
it about time we get rid of the expensive head coverings. some peoples heads aren’t worth the price of its cover.
I always said that the shtreimels r over priced but nobody does anythng abt it they only complain wjhen the sheitel prices r up. Hey a thought maynbe it was made from avoda zara fur
I’ll bet he stole it to resell to some fur dealer for drug money. As the economy worsens, thieves take whatever they can get. Sifrei Torah are especially targeted, since they are worth tens of thousands to a gonif.
Maybe it was another chasid who needed a shtreimel.
Probably not “for” his shtreimel, but, because he was wearing one. Probably a bias attack.
It used to cost 5000 dollars and to all bashers did you cut the expenses on your dress code? Or vehicle that you drive? Or house that you live in ? Or on the vacations that you go on ?? Or on sports tickets??
might be someone from PETA!
$1200 for a striemel? I can get a far more impressive British Army Guards bearskin for that!
The standard bearskin of the British Foot Guards is 18 inches tall, weighs 1.5 pounds, is made from the fur of the Canadian black bear. The British Army purchase the hats, from a British hatmaker which sources its pelts from an international auction. The hatmakers purchase between 50 and 100 black bear skins each year at a cost of about £650 each.If properly maintained, the caps last for decades; some caps in use are reportedly more than 100 years old.
That said I would upset PETA. They held a naked protest outside St Paul’s cathedral against the continued purchase of these hats.
Oy vay!!imagine someone stealing a custom shaitel in flatbush or 5towns which costs more than a shtraimel and MUST be replaced every year cuz the friend got a new one
Does anynody realize that Shtreimels are made form the fur of minks, or other animals classified as rodents, thus you are wearing a sheretz on your head. Why wear something that has the halacha of tumah?
Why don’t the various chassidus get together and jointly declare that going forward, each rebbe and all his gabboim will wear yarmulkes or plain Fedora hats and all the millions of dollars otherwise spent on Shtreimels should go to tzadakah. What a kiddush hashem that would be. However, is will never happen because of the egos involved and the “fashion statement” they seek to make with this levush.
I was waiting for someone to mention the sheitels. This crazy spending on custom sheitels is way overboard. Lets see someone make tekonos that a sheitel should not be more than $1200.
I don’t know what’s more crazy spending thousands on a fur hat made out of a rodent that is probably skinned while it’s still breathing and connecting this fashion to Torah or Judaism, or the craziness where people spend hundreds of dollars on a lemon for Sukkos and believing that Hashem will appreciate their mitzva more.
I bought a streiml 22 years ago across from the main Satmar shul in Williamsburg. It was a stone martin fur (not sable), it cost $400, I’ve never had it reconditioned. It’s absolutely gorgeous when I wear it on Shabbos with a “rose of sharon” black bekesh. It is one of the best investments I have ever made. The Chumash says to wear hats both beautiful and distinguished. If you want to wear a $160 Borsalino which shows every speck of dirt, and makes you look like a “made member”, so be it. Chacun a son gout!
I’m very surprised at what seems to be bad eye, (tzorus ayin), about someone who buys such a relatively cheap shtreimel.
OK, if you don’r wear one anyway, so you cannot comment, but for someone who does, would normally want a Leinish one for his chassne, and as far as I remember a few years ago, you couldn’t get anything new for less than about $2000.
(Or have things changed?)
[I’m even a little surprised why i didn’t notice anyone mentioning this].
my husband doesn’t wear a streimel and bekeshe but i find that minhag absolutely beautiful.(the rest of you,live and let live for cryin’ out loud)even more beautiful are the photos for simchas bais hashoeva showing yidden in streimes,fedoras,kippah srugot,baseball caps,….all dancing together as brothers who love their Father.
If someone wants to look silly and sweat like crazy under the hot summer sun with this shtreimel, I have zero problem with that. If they want to spend thousands on it, again, their wasteful spending is their business. And they may even claim there may be some importance to it, as a minhag or whatever. All fine and dandy.
BUT: if they are committing tzar ba’aley chaim (and it is almost certain they are), there should be some issur, eh?
Wear synthetic for cryin’ out loud!
A bit naïve I am but can someone explain what “‘chacun a son gout” means?
Boruch Hashem that Erev Hoshana Rabba we have nothing better to do but have some fun on vos is nais. What should i say, there are some very good points but some are from plain “imfarginers”!
When my husband decided to leave his so called good shtreimel in Yerushalayim (because he was talked into buying the best, which ended up weighing more than his head could carry) he very nicely replaced it for about $1,300.He was so complimented,because it so enhanced his looks, that some wise guy thought he missed out on something and got it from a new kallah(which he didn’t)!
Don’t get excited,he didn’t and no he is not available.I am sticking with him even though he has mishigas and sometimes misbehaves, but he makes a nice parnosa, is generous to the children and outsiders too! Try knocking on the door or better yet approach him in shul!
Anyway, a shtreimel you buy once in maybe 20 years -today. Oldtimers stick with theirs for life. Hats are generally replaced twice a year and ties sometimes monthly.
About the sheitels, the customs are overpriced but what we have on our head makes us look decent.In Eretz Yisroel you can get the same custom half price.
So let’s stop fighting and arguing on vos is nais. Let us fargin. Boruch Hashem that people have money for bigdai Shabbos, clothing for Shabbos. It makes us look and feel good. Let us all have a Gut Year with gezunt,parnassah and nachas.
Think a minute about the people who were with us a short while ago, of people who are sick in the hospitals and maybe then you’ll say”better money on shtreimel than for a doctor/hospital bill”.
my wife’s Shaitel, 3,000 to 5,000. hope no thief pulls that off one day