Reply To: shaving during Chol Hamoed

For the record, I never said that a person who follows halachah is a slob. I never said an aveil or a person who doesn’t shave during Chol Hamoed is a slob. I said that a person who doesn’t shave, whether it’s because of halachah or any other reason, looks like a slob which I equate with looking unkempt or messy. I didn’t meant to characterize followers of halachah as slobs or lazy people. I meant that sometimes halachah requires us to look messy and it bothers me that we are supposed to look messy for the second days of Yom Tov (and Shabbos Chol Hamoed) when it seems antithetical to the concept of kavod Shabbos and kavod Yom Tov.