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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial color=#444444 size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #444444"><<Litvisher bachurim traditionally had long sideburns [think of some civil war pictures].>></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><FONT color=#444444><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #444444">What is your source for this statement? In all of the photographs I have seen of pre-War Litvisher bochurim, they have short sideburns. For example, see R. Y. Levine's website at </SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#000000><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #444444"><A href="http://personal.stevens.edu/~llevine/young_gedolim.html">http://personal.stevens.edu/~llevine/young_gedolim.html</A>. Long sideburns (not sidelocks) are popular in contemporary Litvisher yeshivos, but I think this is new trend. </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #444444">By the way, on the topic of beards, R. AY Kook in his Iggeros refers to a Gemara in Shabbos that *hadras panim - zkan*, and R. Kook endorses the kabbalistic view that the beard should not be cut. This is now catching on in the chardal world in Israel, where beards and peyot are all the rage.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #444444">Others have referred to the fact that the Italian kabbalists shaved. See the following article: </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #444444"><A href="http://seforim.blogspot.com/2006/08/jews-beards-and-portraits.html">http://seforim.blogspot.com/2006/08/jews-beards-and-portraits.html</A>. He points out that the evidence all hinges on a disagreement as to whether Rama MiFano kept a full beard, although one of the comments also refers to a contemporary accusation made against the Ramchal that he trimmed or shaved his beard. Fascinating stuff.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #444444">Kol tuv</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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