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  • in reply to: Lift & Cut Shavers #623657
    koton
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    jphone:

    He was both interviewed & hired by a goyshe company. They respected his being straight & honest with them, upfront with early Friday, erev yom tov, etc.

    in reply to: Lift & Cut Shavers #623655
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    Jphone,

    My father was in business for many years and his best gimmick was his large beard. Customers would ring up and ask for the guy with the long beard. No one forgot him once they met him.

    in reply to: Smoking Cigarettes #619774
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    I was giving a shiur about how a yid has to be in control of himself 24 hours a day, I was challeged – I was a heavy smoker 20 hour a day, six days a week, for 30 years. I was actually smoking at that moment.

    I put it out and never lite up again, that was three years ago.

    Yes, I still miss smoking but – every yid must be in control of himself!

    in reply to: Lift & Cut Shavers #623650
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    I know, the two rabbonm who went to india did not even go into the temple to see what was done with the hair, they were not allowed in. All the information given by them and used to pasken was either told to them by an indian priest (good reliable aidus, or made up. So it was a kal v’chomer, if the woman got rid of their shaitles for no reason the men should leave thier beards alone for many very good reasons.

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    So you have a choice two out of three work, online or learn! Better ask daas Torah which two you should do.

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    Just Smile ~ Why not?

    koton
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    I suggest everyone on YW learns one hour extra on every day they go on line. Or do it minute for minute, each minute on line means another minute learning.

    in reply to: Lift & Cut Shavers #623646
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    mariner

    I don’t pick and choose nor do I play sport, unfortunatly I am disabled, therefore I spend most of the day (when I am well enough) learning.

    in reply to: Lift & Cut Shavers #623645
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    Why is Mama Rochel Crying?!

    Originally, when our Matriarch Rochel visited her children in exile, she saw them adorned with the Tzelem Elokim [image of G-d — the beard] [Jewish likeness, which enables us to be recognized as Jews].

    She did not fear, because she knew that there was hope for their redemption.

    [since many have] cut off their beards….

    Kehilas Yaakov, Rabbi Shlomo Kluger, Aseres Yemei Teshuva, pp. 306-607.

    in reply to: Lift & Cut Shavers #623643
    koton
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    By the way, why would anyone want to shave?

    in reply to: Lift & Cut Shavers #623642
    koton
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    GingerKale-are there any poskim who hold it is ok to shave?

    Another example from

    Rav and Rosh Yeshiva of SLABODKA

    …Every Jew should think about this and have pity on his children only when they walk in the paths of Hashem, when they are similar in their appearance to their parents, keeping Shabbos and . But not to those who are not at all similar in their appearance to the Jewish people, for they have become distant and have garbed themselves in a different style, desecrating Shabbos and … Their appearance is not similar to the Jewish people, for they have removed from themselves the (Divine image).

    Levush Mordechai, Bava Kamma p.7

    *

    [Epstein, Rosh Yeshiva of Slabodka-Chevron]
    Shaalos Uteshuvos P’as Sod’cha, section 101

    in reply to: Lift & Cut Shavers #623638
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    A BURNING

    QUESTION

    Thousands of righteous women have removed (and even burned) their very expensive Sheitels (containing hair from Hindu women)* (even though it is to the detriment of their appearance)due to a halachic ruling of the great gaon and posek Rav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv, shlita

    Yet the very same Rav Elyashiv, shlita also ruled that all electric shavers which men use to remove their beards definitely have the same halachic status as a razor and their use involves violation of severe Biblical prohibitions on a daily basis**

    If so —

    in reply to: Lift & Cut Shavers #623637
    koton
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    Sweib91, it is difficult to understand as Rav Kamenetsky wrote as follows in Emes l’yacov Yoreh Deah 181

    …Regarding [the prohibition of using] machines for shaving [the beard], this

    is not just a Chumra [Halachic strictness] but a substantive [Halachic] issue,

    and residents of Bnei Brak are certainly obligated to follow the ruling of the

    local Halachic authorities (Poskim) [who prohibit using shavers].

    In fact, I do not know whether the great Torah authorities (Gedolim) of

    America [ever] explicitly permitted them; it is possible that they kept silent

    because no one asked them [their opinion], and they avoided the issue,

    knowing that their words would not be heeded.

    As for [any leniency] that has become accepted in past generations, it is

    a fact that over time there have been many improvements in the machines,

    and it is possible that, as a result of these improvements, shaving with them

    has become prohibited [even according to the reasoning offered for that

    leniency].Accordingly, in this case, it is difficult to rely on [any] tradition [to

    be lenient]…*

    * Indeed, this is how [Rabbonim] should rule, that it is not just Halachic

    strictness, and if a young man wishes to be scrupulous not to use any shaving

    machine, his parents should not object to this and say that [their son] is just

    trying to find [superfluous] Halachic stringencies.

    in reply to: Lift & Cut Shavers #623635
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    in reply to: Lift & Cut Shavers #623634
    koton
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    When the disease of cutting the beard spread among students of

    the [Litvishe] Yeshivos, the well-known Gaon, Rabbi Eliezer Gordon

    [Rov and Rosh Yeshiva of Telz], of blessed memory, adopted the

    most stringent measures [to stop it].

    When he saw that they persisted in their defiance, he mobilized

    [Rov of Pinsk-Karlin], the venerable Rabbi Eliyahu Chaim Meisel

    [Rov of Lodz, Poland], and the mighty Gaonim Rabbi Chaim HaLevi

    [Soloveitchik, Rov of Brisk], and Rabbi Chaim Ozer [Grodzenski,

    Rov of Vilna]
    He demanded that they place a prohibition on Rabbonim

    against granting them [students who cut their beards] Rabbinic

    ordination [Semicha], on Shochtim against teaching them the skill

    of ritual slaughtering [Shechita], and on Jewish communities against

    employing them in any religious position.

    Kovetz Yagdil Torah 7:5

    in reply to: Lift & Cut Shavers #623633
    koton
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    HALACHIC RULING ~ Rabbi Yosef Sholom Elyashiv ~ ABOUT SHAVING THE BEARD

    by the Gaon, Yerushalayim

    The Chofetz Chaim wrote (Likkutei Halachos, end of Makkos)

    that recently a machine had been introduced for shaving the

    hair, and, [using it for shaving the beard] is, in his opinion,

    close to [transgressing] a prohibition of the Torah itself.

    In our opinion, if this was the case in his

    time, when [the machine] was not so advanced and even the

    lowest setting did not give a very close shave, how much more

    so in our time when the machine works by electricity [giving a

    much closer shave], it is considered destroying the

    hair in the manner itself…

    in reply to: Lift & Cut Shavers #623632
    koton
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    Regarding the Cutting and Growth of the Beard

    by HaGaon Rabbi Chayim Kanievsky, shlita

    (Son of the Steipler Gaon)

    excerpted from his sefer Orchos Yosher (p.19)

    [With this our

    having this [a beard]
    is only in recent generations that some have started to treat this irreverently, having learned this from the non-Jews.

    [non-Jewish]
    quoted by the Chofetz Chayim in his Sefer Hamitzvos Hakotzer (Prohibitions 177).

    Our teacher the Chazon Ish was highly displeased with this practice. His displeasure was not only with

    permit selling one even to a Jew who shaves with a razor in order to save him from the prohibition of using a razor, but

    instructed [the inquirer] to sell it to a non-Jew.

    My father and teacher [Rabbi Yaakov Yisroel Kanievsky, the Steipler Gaon], of blessed memory, was also

    very strict about this, saying it is very likely that [a shaving machine] is considered literally a razor, so that

    one transgresses five prohibitions for using it.

    electric shaver, refer to Likkutei Halochos on tractate Makkos by the Chofetz Chayim, p.14b in Ein Mishpot there, where

    he writes that it is forbidden and that one should not be lenient in this. It is also known that the Chazon Ish, of blessed

    [In addition, the Chazon Ish] was highly displeased even with those who

    [chemical].

    care not to cut the beard even with scissors, for the Kabbalists write that thereby one uproots the channels of [the flow of]

    Kedusha from Above. Our fathers and ancestors in our land were accustomed to observing this strictly. Especially today

    when many of the lawless elements of our nation have the practice of shaving with a razor, it is a great Mitzva for the

    whole Jewish people to reinforce this observance and not to trim the beard even with scissors, thereby showing everyone

    that the commandments the Torah has given us to distinguish the Jewish man [from the non-Jew] are precious to us and

    [depilatory cream]
    [poison] [lifegiving potion] either, and I find this matter very painful,

    for it is against the [Jewish] quality of modesty and is not the Jewish style of dress but [Jews] have learned it from the non-

    of those who remove their beards [with scissors] similar to [the effect of] a razor [close cutting], for I am accustomed to

    this being prohibited since the previous generations, and [the prohibition]

    this sickness has spread even among Torah scholars, may they be well, the issue has not changed as a result of this, and

    in reply to: Lift & Cut Shavers #623631
    koton
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    GingerKale,

    I never met a posek who allowed shaving. You think the chofetz chayim wrote seforim for fun?

    If you accept his Mishna Beruro, you must accept his Kuntres Tiferes Odom, unless it is like the reform / mesorti movement who choose which halochos to keep and which to trash.

    By the way did I mention the Chazon Ish:

    [1] just like a razor[2] and did not permit selling a shaving machine even to a Jew who shaves with a razor in order to save him from the prohibition of using a razor[3] [chemical][4].

    He wrote:[5] [removal of the beard with] depilatory cream… I find this matter very painful…I am accustomed to this being prohibited since the earlier generations, and [the prohibition] was very severe…[Jews] have learned it from the non-Jews during their exile…Although this sickness has spread even among the bnei Torah, the issue has not changed as a result of this, and therefore my soul boils [with rage]
    [6]

    sources cited below in the following footnotes (2-3).

    colleague/disciple, Rav Shmuel HaLevi Vosner shlita, in his Teshuvos Shevet HaLevi

    p. 56) and numerous other sources cited in Hadras Ponim Zokon (pp. 349-350).

    see also Rav Chayim Kanievsky shlita in his sefer Orchos Yosher (p. 20), where he

    not permit selling one even to a Jew who shaves with a razor in order to save him

    from the prohibition of using a razor, but instructed [the inquirer) to sell it to a

    4 Rav Chayim Kanievsky shlita in his sefer Orchos Yosher (ibid.).

    Orchos Yosher (ibid.).

    in reply to: Lift & Cut Shavers #623627
    koton
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    Will You Heed the Call of the Gedolim?

    AN URGENT PROCLAMATION from the Leading Sages of our generation

    THE SEVERE BREACH OF HALACHA INVOLVED IN THE USE OF SHAVING MACHINES is well known to all. Their use was prohibited by our Rabbis, the gedolim of the [previous] generation, including the Chafetz Chayim and the Chazon Ish. Moreover, this [prohibition applied] even to the shavers of many years ago [when the shavers were far more primitive and did not cut hair as close to the skin as modern shavers]. Today, the shavers have been enhanced [and cut much closer to the skin] and thus the halachic issues involved are far more severe. This was the halachic ruling of also our great teacher, [the Steipler Gaon, R. Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky] [as a razor], as is evident from Makkos 21a and Rambam, Hilchos Avodas Kochavim, ch. 12.

    IT IS THUS OBVIOUSLY THE RESPONSIBILITY OF ALL THE ROSHEI YESHIVOS [heads of the yeshivos] to confront this issue and not allow shavers that leave the face smooth to be brought in [to the yeshivos]. This prohibition applies both to the one who shaves and the one who is shaven.

    IT IS A GREAT MITZVAH TO STUDY THE SEFER TIFERES ADAM, authored by the Chafetz Chayim, zatzal, that focuses on strengthening the observance of this prohibition and explains the reward received in both this world and the next for its practice.

    [signed by:]

    [wrote about this halachic principle] and it was thus obvious to him that [shaving machines]
    R. Yosef Shalom Eliashiv

    R. Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman. R. Shmuel HaLevi Wosner. R. Michal Yehudah Lefkovitz. R. Nissim Karelitz. R. Chayim Kanievsky.

    in reply to: Lift & Cut Shavers #623626
    koton
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    He [Rav Aharon Kotler] [may one use a shaving machine] [the prohibition]

    in reply to: Lift & Cut Shavers #623625
    koton
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    Have a look at http://www.koshershaver.info/ it is a different site to the one given by papper and is well worth reading.

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