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<font size=3>At 06:42 PM 5/7/2015, Micha Berger wrote:<br>
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The Pri Etz Chaim never
said that the Ari said it was<br>
: appropriate.<br><br>
What? The Ari PARTICIPATED in it himself!<br>
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From
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upsherin" eudora="autourl">
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upsherin</a><br><br>
Rabbi <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Vital">Chaim Vital</a>
wrote in Sha'ar Ha-Kavanot that
"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Luria">Isaac Luria</a>,
cut his son's hair on
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lag_BaOmer">Lag BaOmer</a>,
according to the well-known custom." However, the age of his son is
not mentioned. An obvious problem raised by Avraham Yaari, in an article
in Tarbiz 22 (1951), is that many sources cite that the Arizal held one
should not cut one's hair for the entire
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_of_the_Omer">sefirah</a> –
including Lag BaOmer, (see Shaarei Teshuva, O.C. 493, 8). <br><br>
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