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face=Arial>From: Eli Turkel via Avodah
<avodah@lists.aishdas.org><BR><BR>In some circles it is common for men to
keep long peyot (as an aside it has<BR>become common also in some chardal
circles)<BR><BR>The book Keren Zavit says he doesn't understand the
custom....<BR>-- <BR>Eli Turkel</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Yemenites have long payos, so this must be a very old custom, not some
recent chumra. They don't call them "payos" but "simanim," which I find
charming. They are signs that a man is a Jew, proud and obvious
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