tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post3593614931154138332..comments2024-03-05T21:22:43.426-05:00Comments on parshablog: Interesting Posts and Articles #24joshwaxmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03516171362038454070noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-15435500342805073682008-05-01T06:22:00.000-04:002008-05-01T06:22:00.000-04:00thanks.indeed.and what the first anonymous comment...thanks.<BR/>indeed.<BR/>and what the first anonymous comment there said. this is part of the Eretz Yisrael/America divide.joshwaxmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05149022516101476797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-76335429178492547362008-05-01T03:22:00.000-04:002008-05-01T03:22:00.000-04:00and now this:http://lifeinisrael.blogspot.com/2008...and now this:<BR/>http://lifeinisrael.blogspot.com/2008/05/blog-post.htmlLion of Zionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10342299133387602141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-39461099665393997532008-04-29T11:58:00.000-04:002008-04-29T11:58:00.000-04:00i left this comment for you on the chabad website,...i left this comment for you on the chabad website, but i don't know if it will be approved so i am leaving it here as well<BR/><BR/><BR/>from what i understand, not shaving/trimming a beard is very important to chabdniks. it's not something you can appreciate from an intellectual or halakhic perspective (if i may say so to you), because that's not what's at work in this instance. <BR/><BR/>the permissibility of using an electric shaver (or any other method for removing facial hair) is only incidental to the point that is being made in the cartoon. thus the shaver in the cartoon is not a statement against shavers per se, but rather a statement of the importance of an untrimmed beard (the shaver is only a symbol). so citing rav moshe is pretty irrelevant as far as they are concerned. (what you need to show is that one does not have to grow a beard altogether, not that one may use a shaver should he choose to remove it. and for this purpose, the photographs from pre-war yeshivot say more than any teshuvah one can cite.)<BR/><BR/>anyway, i remember reading a good article on shavers in techumin (early 90s?), but i'm not sure how relevant it is today since shaver technology has changed.Lion of Zionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10342299133387602141noreply@blogger.com