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Why is it customary for Jews to grow beards?
What is the reason for growing one's beard? Many rabbis have beards. Why?
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removing a dislocated hair out of one's beard on shabbat
Is there any prohibition to remove a disconnected beard hair from a beard on Shabbat? In order to remove the hair you still may have to move away other parts of the beard to get to the hair in ...
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Where are the 5 corners of the beard?
In Vayikra 19:27, the Passuk says ולא תשחית את פאת זקנך - "and you shall not destroy the edge of your beard". I believe it says in Meseches Makkot (3:5) that this Passuk refers to 5 edges of the beard ...
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Combing the beard on Shabbos vs. weekday?
It says here that
One is not allowed to use a comb on Shabbos to comb his hair because one will ultimately pull out hair while combing. This is forbidden even if one will only run through the ...
