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Additions to Book About Beards

A 88 page "supplement" was released for a encyclopedic work about cutting and growth of the beard in Halachic perspective. Full Story

R’ Binyomin Levitin, 96, OBM

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to be clear
September 23, 2013 9:54 pm

To be clear, is it 100% an issur midaroyseh for those that shave/trim? If it is, can you trust their kashrus, use them as an eid, have them mashlim a minyan, etc. If they can be included for these things, why?

dys
September 23, 2013 3:24 am

To #3 – why don’t you read just the shorter book quoted above in English first by Eliahu Touger “The beard in jewish law”and then you won’t be so quick to jump to your imaginary conclusions about false heterim!!!

To #3
September 22, 2013 11:04 pm

It seems from the article that even the 88 pages of supplemental material in this new volume of Miluyim are very rich in content. If so how can it be that only 25 pages out of the over 1,000 pages in the original sefer Hadras Ponim Zokon are of value? It appears that #3 never saw the sefer itself. Sefer Hadras Ponim Zokon is structured in three parts. The first documents and analyzes the statements of rishonim and achronim throughout the ages regarding the beard. The second is comprised of 19 chapters each discussing a different halachic issue concerning the… Read more »

to #2
September 22, 2013 6:51 pm

#2- that book in english is not as thorough as the original hebrew one

To #1:
September 22, 2013 6:34 pm

The book consists of endless documentation prohibiting beard cutting, hence the term “encyclopedic.” Not much else is said, and the insights dry up after 25 pages-worth of the book.
Interestingly enough, I’ve heard that a book espousing all the halachik authorities which permit beard cutting would equal this book in size!

English Translation
September 22, 2013 5:55 pm

See “The Beard in Jewish Law” translated by Rabbi Eliyahu Touger and published by KTAV and available through Kehot and Crown Heights book stores.

english translation..
September 22, 2013 3:13 pm

Wish there was an english translation!

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