[Avodah] long peyot

[Eli Turkel via Avodah]

>From <http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/735346>:

B. Highest Point. The location of the highest point on the head that
the peyos extend is described in Shulchan Aruch (181:9) as "across from
the hair on is forehead". There are two basic opinions as to the precise
location the Shulchan Aruch refers to:

1. Rabbi Yisroel Belsky (Shulchan Halevi page 122) writes that he had
heard directly from Rav Yakov Kaminetzky zt"l that the upper limit of
the peyos ha'rosh begins "at the highest point of the hairline as it
arches over the ear and extends in a slightly curved line across to
where the hairline of the forehead turns sharply downwards towards the
sideburns. All the hair from the imaginary line that connect these two
points and below comprises the peyos ha'rosh".

2. Rabbi Belsky also quotes "some rabbonim have a mesora, a tradition
from their Rabbis, that the peyos do not extend above the upper cartilage
of the ear (tenuch ha'ozen) at all. According to their mesorah, the
imaginary line extends horizontally from the point in the hairline above
the foremost part of ear almost until where the downward slope of the
frontal hairline angles back towards the ear.

For a picture see
<http://www.cckollel.org/parsha_encounters/5770/shemos_70.pdf>

-- 
Eli Turkel