hogwash and dishonest as most of these polemics invariably are even if well-intentioned
my grandfather studied in he Telz (Telshe) Yeshiva,
growing a beard was essentially verboten there [he had a mustache it was recommended to grow aby a member of the hanhala)
” Rabbi Chaim Ozer [Grodzenski, Rov of Vilna], of blessed memory. He demanded that they place a prohibition on Rabbonim against granting [students who cut their beards] Rabbinic ordination [semichah], on Shochtim against teaching them the skill of ritual slaughtering [shechitah], and on Jewish communities against employing them in any religious position” (Kovetz Yagdil Torah 7:5). ”
Unlikely. If proof is needed read the episode with the shochet In the Autobiography Of
Lieutenant Birnbaum
“Rav Kalmanowitz therefore refused to shave, and the Roshei Yeshiva and his friends respected him for it.”
This is accurate indeed only because of who he was and his personality
he himself didn’t approve Or at least never expressed disapproval of the shita against beards of the
Mirrer Yeshiva Except for those on a much higher level
rav Rabbi Elya Sve his son-in-law reportedly expounded that a bochur with a beard is like a monkey in pajamas