Miriamson
I don’t deny the depth of your knowledge but I have an issue with your presentation
Being clean shaven is “modern” but that doesn’t mean it was done b’averah
Just the opposite, numerous esteemed rabbis of the previous generations decided that because clean-shaven was becoming the look of secular scholarship it should be adopted by Yeshivah students (And even rabbunim. I believe the RAMCHAL and other Italian rabbunim were clean shaven)
I know someone who was told (as a bachur) to shave by Rav Wolbe
I know someone who was on the fence and asked Rav Moshe and his response was “when you have a tenth of the yiras shemayim of the (pre war) bochrum we will talk chumros”
This was a philosophy designed by gedolim
Bottom line
The Gemara and SA permit shaving . As long as it’s not done with a razor. To tell me that you hold it’s not permitted Is highly hashkafically questionable.
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