Reply To: Peyos

So is growing one’s peyos a chumra for the shitos that say that one is not allowed to cut them at all? I was under the assumption that no shitah requires one to grow peyos beyond a certain length.

Not eating gebrochts is a chumra (some shitos consider it chomeitz) not a hiddur. Not using an eruv is a chumra (some shitos say the eruv is ineffective) not a chumra. Cleaning the house is a hiddur, but that might be considered an asei of tashbisu, not a lo saaseh. Modesty, I don’t know if it’s a chumra or a hiddur.

(Just to be clear how I’m defining it, a chumra is when you want to be mekayem as many shitos as possible… a hiddur is going beyond what halachah (according to any shitah) requires).