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Re: On clothing, "peyos" and language.
« Reply #50 on: March 03, 2013, 03:18:34 PM »
PS, on a completely unrelated thought...

Today I met my new next-door neighbor. It turns out the fence on the side of my house has fallen (I was not aware of it until today). I saw a man in my backyard and I wanted to find out what was going on. As I approached I saw a Chinese man digging ditches where my fence used to stand. Although he didn't speak English very well I asked him what happened. He said the fence fell and he was going to re-erect it (he was digging the ditches for the poles to hold the fence)...

But then he asked me my name, which I told him, and he said his name was 'Soloman' and he smiled at me. I believe he was able to determine I was a Jew by my peyot, and my head-covering (I was wearing my baseball-cap at the time). Even the Chinese know to identify a man wearing peyot as a Jew...

You shall make yourself the Festival of Sukkoth for seven days, when you gather in [the produce] from your threshing floor and your vat.And you shall rejoice in your Festival-you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, who are within your cities
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