[Avodah] Pushing Off the Upsherin

[Prof. L. Levine]

>From the article at
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By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Question: A woman has a son with adorable blond curly hair. She is finding it enormously difficult to cut her son’s hair at age three. Can she push off the upsherin for this reason? Answer: Let’s first get some background. The minhag of delaying the first haircut is one […]
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I have to presume that this woman is not aware of the problems with the practice of not cutting a boy's hair until age 3.  From

https://web.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/shorshei_hair_cutting.pdf

The tendency among Ashkenazi communities to refrain from this practice stems, according to one view, from the concern that the chalaka transgresses the prohibition of imitating pagan practices. Cutting a child's hair at the age of three was a well-known custom among several nations in ancient times, and thus observing this practice may constitute an imitation of pagan ritual.

See the above referenced article for more.  YL

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