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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>From: Micha Berger <micha@aishdas.org><BR>In Avodah Digest, Vol 27,
Issue 37</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><BR><BR>On Fri, Feb 05, 2010, RSBA wrote to Areivim:<BR>:
http://onthemainline.blogspot.com/2010/02/yekke-with-curly-peyos.html<BR><BR>For
those who don't use other parts of the internet... It's a picture of<BR>R' Aron
Wolfssohn Halle (R' Aharon ben Wolf, from Halle), who lived<BR>1756-1832, was
the rav of Hildesheim, thus the "Yekke with Curly Peyos"<BR>in the URL RSBA
shared.<BR><BR><BR>....I think there is some SERIOUS antiquity to the notion.
It's either that,<BR>or I would have to accept parallel evolution of banana-curl
peiyos in<BR>both the Hungary-Galicia area and Teiman. </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><BR>....We see from this gemera that curly peyos was considered part of a
young<BR>Jewish boy's beauty as far back as the days of the tannaim.
...<BR><BR><BR><BR>-- <BR>Micha
Berger
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<DIV>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.)</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><BR><B>--Toby Katz<BR>==========<BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"></B>--------------------
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