[Avodah] "Yeshivishe Payes"

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, June 6, 2007 8:32 am, R Danny Schoemann wrote:
: Lately there's been a growing trend to tuck some hair behind your
: ears; either as a Zeicher to Payesor as a public declaration that
: you're an Am Ha'Aretz.

Actually, Rav Dovid Lifshitz did it, so I would think the custom is
Litvish, not merely a "growing trend". However, RDL's payos were thick
blocks of hair swept back, not the strings one now sees.

...
: Everything else is "fashion"; tucking behind the ear vs. let it hand
: loose; curling them...

Don't you find it interesting, though, that East Europeans and
Teimanim have similar "fashions"? Just how old is the idea of wearing
long banana-curl peiyos? Could it actually date back to the split
between the two qehillos -- back around churban bayis *rishon*?

In any case, that two is a trimmed but long notion of pei'ah. And not
a product of yeshivish trends.

I therefore think there is some real Avodah-esque material hiding
under here.

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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