Cut my peyot off

David Hamelech says protect me as I am a chasid. A chasid needs special protection to watch not to sway from customs as he does more than required, the border becomes fuzzy and it is hard to distinguish what was added over halacha. If someone never had long peyot is no problem but once you had it for some time, you must scrutinize your action to understand the reason cutting it and be careful not to violate any other customs.

I would suggest that you visibly increase your שמירת המצות in other ways, so that your parents see that you are still a fine Jew. That would allay their fears and be a special כיבוד אב ואם at the same time.

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a/k/a a person who just joined a week ago and never posted anthing besides this

Are you actually going OTD?
It seems that you are guilty for upsetting your parents.
Another question. If not for your parents, would you have found the Peyos annoying?

Sadly it probably would be more a communal reaction that might bother you. Among chasidim, it certainly would SEEM shaving off peyos means OTD, so I don’t know how you can overcome that perception unless you grow them back. On the other hand, if you feel peyos are an annoyance, you have to ask yourself is it symbolic of something else. You can still be a good frum Jew without being a chasid.

one more point no boy cuts his peyos because they are “annoying” when its done its a statement of breaking loose its not the curls themselves

My odest cut his peyos when he was a child. We didn’t make a big deal about it. He never grew them back and now that he is a father his 3 1/2 year old has peyos. I don’t have long peyos. Of all my sons only my second son kept his peyos.

Zs -“I’m almost 17 I just cut my Peyot off after having them since I was three.”

Don’t worry about it.
My son did it.
I know a lot of guys that had them as kids, but chopped them off as Adults.
It’s a Free World!

Hey commonsaychel,

Either you saychel isn’t that common in the CR or it gives people an outlet besides politics (which has become bland if you ask me)

Let em have some fun

I do!!!
But if you enjoyed the CR before the past few months, you must have had a different screen name. This ine is only 4 months old.

With peyos, you’ll never be able to pass as a goy.

And whenever you did an averah be-tzibbur, it will be a hillul ha-Shem (one can always wear a hat rather than a kippah, and many goyim have beads, but no way to hide the peyos).

akuperma, why can’t you weave it together and hide it behind the ears so it is not seen as many do?

Used the wrong word above should be braid not weave.

this sounds like a bunch of yeshiva bochurim having fun… i am starting to suspect that this is what it is