[Avodah] Why are beards considers so choshuv?

[hankman]

Just based on my own svarah (with which you may feel free to disagree) I would say that it is the idea of shleimus ha'adam and of the Tzelem Elokim it represents. Removing the beard could be seen as a certain chesoron in this shleimus. This notion is too straight forward so I would be surprised if some of the the meforshim do not use it, but I do not know, as I have not looked into this.

Kol Tuv

Chaim Manaster
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