Chabad & Friends: Chofetz Chaim on Not Trimming a Beard

so Malaysia welcome to the bottom friends from Carlos Springs Florida where the Sun is nice and bright we'll talk about the carpets Higham and the Babich a second installment the puppet Shyam everyone knows wrote a safer wrote a holy book called Ferris Adam where he talks about the beauty of man of a Jewish person having a beard okay that came as a response to an earlier essay that he wrote in a in a pamphlet called little Israel where he permitted as a one-time on a one-time basis for American Jews who had wrote written to him asking for permission to remove their beard so he told them it's permissible by using scissors he never thought that it would become the norm and it became the norm and it was then when he when he wrote immediately the safer to Pharaoh said them to retract what he wrote and it's a you throw because he saw it's getting out of hand but I want to talk about what his own son barri labor Accords in the biography that he wrote about his father which is very important to give you an insight into the relationship between the carpet scallion and calcium the relationship between Mubarak I see them in the carpet sky and many very interesting and important information one can glean from that biography so he says they're after the carpets Khayyam pub publicized his Hector is permission given to the American people who asked him about removing the beard in the in his Contras in his essay nucleus RAL he says Labov I shall see them in Europe who heard about it were very upset and they were upset for two reasons one that he didn't take into consideration or they thought he didn't take into consideration the ruling of the semak's addicts which says under any circumstance any and all circumstances he's now allowed to remove your beard and he easy trim it but truly not to remove it because it's desecrating the prohibition the Torah provision of my syllabus don't don't look like a woman don't dress like a woman and also the fat that he publicized his ruling in other words even if you don't accept that some ascetics ruling but the fact that you publicize ahead there they saw in this a terrible outcome and they were a hundred percent right because later the conference crime realized what is had their accomplished so you right away retracted the header and I think this is an important lesson for us today and it reminds me also of the heck they're a bunch of Langston gave on a one-time basis to a particular administrator who asked about using non call of Heathrow milk in a school in a Jewish school out somewhere in Pennsylvania I think was during the 50s early 60s in other words the circumstances were such that there wasn't money to pay for all of his role so he gave ahead there and what has become from that Hector that people living in Borough Park in Flatbush in the five towns in Los Angeles in Chicago in Miami they say they can have a store right around the corner which sells called Israel and meanwhile they'll buy some of them some of them call of Occam why because I might show permits it well you didn't really read the responsive out of my show he permitted it you know in a dire situation at a certain time to a certain person of a certain institution it wasn't a flat-out Hitler but now so many years later people don't know about that they don't care about it and we have to change the tide so the Obama should see them back in the in the in the nineteen tens 20s at the time when the Tropic sky and gave that Hitler they had far vision and they saw that publicizing such a heckler is going to lead to a problem and this we have to conclude and remind ourselves that not only for the barbecues is it inappropriate is it forbidden to share your beards and even trim your beers but forget about the holo issue I don't mean forget in the callous way of course I left as the bottom line but the blessings that the ZOA says and it isn't just for a kebab Nikhil of course it is for every Jew the blessings that the Tsar says that you have for wearing a full complete beard without trimming it is part no sir should do him money happiness shelling bias we all complain about this issue of that issue here you have already made investment that cost you nothing and even the argument that for shidduchim I find easier Ashida if I trim my beard or I cut my beard is baloney it's not true on the contrary if you have a beard a full beard and untrimmed beard and you stick to your principles the potential girl will say this is who I want because he is a true godly fearing person