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Don’t Be Weird Grow A Beard!!!
Sefardic Panther:
Men curling their hair to be stylish sounds a bit boy george. And indeed Yosef HaTsadiq and Eliyahu HaNavi were ridiculed for curling their hair. I am sure they had spiritual reasons for this practice which would otherwise be fairly effeminate.
I was told that Esaw had payoth (which he would have copied from Yitshaq and Yaqov). I wish I could find better evidence though.
Perhaps you can just grow regular sideburns. I am really not sure. My main point here is look at how the blacks and the muslims are flaunting their cultural styles. Why can’t we flaunt ours? It would combat assimilation.
IsraeliGovtAreKapos:
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--- Quote from: Sefardic Panther on December 20, 2009, 07:10:22 PM ---Men curling their hair to be stylish sounds a bit boy george. And indeed Yosef HaTsadiq and Eliyahu HaNavi were ridiculed for curling their hair. I am sure they had spiritual reasons for this practice which would otherwise be fairly effeminate.
I was told that Esaw had payoth (which he would have copied from Yitshaq and Yaqov). I wish I could find better evidence though.
Perhaps you can just grow regular sideburns. I am really not sure. My main point here is look at how the blacks and the muslims are flaunting their cultural styles. Why can’t we flaunt ours? It would combat assimilation.
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Who made the Peyot a traditional Jewish hairstyle?
Sefardic Panther:
What does that mean? The payot are an exclusivly Jewish hairstyle!!
IsraeliGovtAreKapos:
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--- Quote from: Sefardic Panther on December 20, 2009, 07:25:46 PM ---What does that mean? The payot are an exclusivly Jewish hairstyle!!
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That wasn't my question. My question was, how can you say that it's a traditional hairstyle for Jews as being Jews (not a hairstyle being used by some Jews)? There are enough Jews, religious Jews, who don't Peyot (like me), and I don't think Essav is a good example for us (to learn from).
Sefardic Panther:
I am most certainly not using Esav as an example to learn from. What I said was I heard Esav grew payot to fool his father into thinking he was pious. And the only pious people he could have copied the payot from were his father and his brother. If that is true then payot goes back to those times.
Yes a lot of Jews do not have payot. But the Temani (who have lived in isolation in the Arabian peninsula since Shlomo HaMelekh’s time and who practice a purer form of Judaism) have payot and all the greatest rabbis have payot.
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