Rabbi, Why Do You Wear White Shirts? - Ask The Rabbi Live with Rabbi Mintz

a question here why do so manyi men wear white shirts well why not they say jackets too just white shirts and suits and ties and so on I know white shirts but and blackheads so the answer is like this the um one of the great rabbis in the talud and the gor said called his clothing M they're very similar which has the same same root of the word covered beged he called his clothing the ones who honor me those are my my the honor the people who honor my clothing is what gives me honor the uh person God made manim whatever that means in the form of God of course that doesn't God doesn't have a form but we discussed this in previous occasions but whatever it means which we not D to right now but a person is Godly he has a the which is a soul which is totally spiritual and he has a body and this body that a person has Divine Soul yeah well I know what you mean by that but Divine I guess you can call it that he has a soul and he has a body has 63 parts to it like a person's soul has 63 parts to it but that which equivalent to the 613 laws of the Torah so this body that we have could be very holy we're supposed to make it supposed sanctify it by doing all the Mitzvah all the commands of the Torah we sanctify our body some people desecrate the body by going after all the bodily desires and all the bodily bad character traits that some people go after so it's our hand to bring up her body to make it holy or to desecrate it make it Unholy we as a Jewish Nation we're working on ifying our bodies notating our bodies and we consider the body very holy when a person dies we are obligated to uh conduct ourselves with the body with very very strict laws showing great respect to the body that was alive at one time and connected to the soul and doing all the mitzvas of the body is considered a very holy thing therefore we clothe it in such a way which is befitting for somebody who's very outstanding if you to Manhattan and go to the offices of the uh Stock Exchange or some of the corporations you see people going with white shirts and uh ties and suits some have colge shirts some have white shirts white shirts considered more something more official than the than than the colge shirt but why are they going that way because that shows a certain uh importance that they have gu with dirty overalls and the and a shirt hanging out it doesn't show much respect to his body people like to go that way for some reason but those people who want to show respect for their body which is something to respect they go clothing themselves in the right way and they call himself in a very uh befitting way for the God's creation of a body so since a white shirt represents more of a outstanding special honorable way of of dressing that's why we dress our body with some people with white shirt with a tie with a jacket with a suit with a blackhe we want to show that we respect this great body that God gave us and of course we don't want just uh have the outside appearance to be holy but it only gives us a cue an idea that now we have to make a body really Holy by doing God's laws and following the Torah and really making our body inside and outside to be a holy honorable thing