[Avodah] Interesting discussion about the history of curly Peyos

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From: Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org>
In Avodah Digest, Vol 27,  Issue 37
 


On Fri, Feb 05, 2010, RSBA wrote to Areivim:
:  http://onthemainline.blogspot.com/2010/02/yekke-with-curly-peyos.html

For  those who don't use other parts of the internet... It's a picture of
R' Aron  Wolfssohn Halle (R' Aharon ben Wolf, from Halle), who lived
1756-1832, was  the rav of Hildesheim, thus the "Yekke with Curly Peyos"
in the URL RSBA  shared.


....I think there is some SERIOUS antiquity to the notion.  It's either 
that,
or I would have to accept parallel evolution of banana-curl  peiyos in
both the Hungary-Galicia area and Teiman. 

....We see from this gemera that curly peyos was considered part of a  young
Jewish boy's beauty as far back as the days of the tannaim.  ...



-- 
Micha  Berger              





 
>>>>>
 
 
Stranger than the curly payos is the fact that he seems to  have  shaved 
part of his beard -- his cheeks are clean-shaven and he only has hair  on  his 
chin and under his jaw.  The juxtaposition of the curly payos  and sylized 
beard is very strange-looking.  (Unless -- is it  possible?  -- that's just 
how his beard happened to grow?  It really  looks shaved, not the bits of 
fluff and fuzz some men have who can't grow a full  beard.)
 

--Toby Katz
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