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Don’t Be Weird Grow A Beard!!!
Sefardic Panther:
The Torah says that all Jewish men must grow a beard and payoth. And of course all the greatest Rabbis have beards and payoth.
I don’t like the modern practice of some religious Jewish men using the electric shaver as a loophole for shaving.
The only people who do not have beards are boys and women.
In America do men with beards always get strip searched at airports? Is having a beard problematic for that reason?
muman613:
Funny you should ask...
The only time I was hassled at the airport was about six years ago... I was pulled aside because I had shaven my beard and my driver license ID showed me wearing my beard... I have not flown since then and I prefer not to fly....
I have let my beard grow for many years, and started keeping my peyot for about four years now...
Sefardic Panther:
Mazel tov for growing a beard and payoth!!
B’ezrath Hashem more baalei teshuva will follow your example and distance themselves from gentile style and culture.
With payoth its kind of hard to hide being Jewish. Have you ever faced discrimination in the workplace? Take legal action if you do. If the blacks and the homosexuals can do it so should we!!!
One of the best things about living in Israel is that it’s the only country in the world where you can be openly Jewish and people will not make you ashamed of it.
muman613:
--- Quote from: Sefardic Panther on December 01, 2009, 03:14:21 PM ---Mazel tov for growing a beard and payoth!!
B’ezrath Hashem more baalei teshuva will follow your example and distance themselves from gentile style and culture.
With payoth its kind of hard to hide being Jewish. Have you ever faced discrimination in the workplace? Take legal action if you do. If the blacks and the homosexuals can do it so should we!!!
One of the best things about living in Israel is that it’s the only country in the world where you can be openly Jewish and people will not make you ashamed of it.
--- End quote ---
Shalom SP,
I am not a Jew who is afraid of being called a Jew. To me it is a badge of honor and I am PROUD to be Jewish. I wear Kippah and Tzit-Tzits to work here and I have never seen any antisemitism here. We have an international work force including three Israelis and our company recently aquired a high-tech company in Tel Aviv.
I have heard it said that the goyim respect religious Jews more than they do self-haters... I think this may be a factor in why I have never seen anyone call me any derogatory name or prevent me from succeeding here at work. I am grateful to work with such a wide variety of people and they all seem to accept my Jewish image, and my Jewish neshamah.
Sefardic Panther:
I’m happy that you are never discriminated against. I think this is evidence that when Jews do what Hashem wants antisemitism never arises. Antisemitism only occurs when Hashem punishes Jews for not following the Torah.
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