[Avodah] Yeshivishe Peyos

[Marty Bluke]

R' Micha Berger wrote:
<There is no mitzvah for an esrog or megillah to have a case, never
mind a pretty one. ...

But the esrog is a cheftza shel mitzva and therefore it makes sense to
beautify it, it's case, etc. The beautification has some connection to
the mitzva. By peyos harosh there is no cheftza of a mitzva, the
mitzva is not to cut off your peyos. How can you beautify that?

The explanation that I have heard is that it is a siman that you are
doing it lshem mitzva.