Reply To: beard types and lengths in Judiasm

I’ve heard, (although I haven’t seen this inside) that keeping a trim beard versus not trimming the beard is a machlokes between the Arizal and the Ramchal. The Arizal holds not to touch it at all and the Ramchal says that there just needs to be a beard even if it is trim. Again, I can’t vouch for this veracity of these statements, but it is what I’ve heard.