[Avodah] Why are beards considers so choshuv?

[Avroham Yakov]

Hello,

 

Why are beards considers so choshuv?

 

We know from the seder how Rav Azariah had a big gray beard
come via a miracle.

 

But to get a beard requires two things: good genes and not
shaving.  A person has no control over
the genes, and to grow a beard, a person just does not shave.  That is the opposite of l’fum tzara agra.

 

So with that, why does Judaism consider a beard so chashuv?

 

Aside from the issue of the permissibility of eclectic razor,
why is a beard so chashuv?  And why do
many men feel embarrassed by their inability to grow a full bread (having peach
fuzz)?

 

Thank you,

 

Avroham 		 	   		  
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