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Payot - Use

Payot - Use: Encyclopedia II - Payot - Use

The original law only requires the payot not to be removed, though they can be cut or trimmed but not with a razor, or blade sliding along the skin. Similarly, shaving facial hair was also prohibited. Since the advent of the electric razor, those models that function on the principle of a scissor would make shaving easy for many Modern Orthodox men. Within Haredi Judaism and particularly within Hasidic Judaism most men tend not to shave and quite a few grow payot that they were either rolled up behind their ears, shortened and ...

Payot: Encyclopedia II - Payot - Use

Payot - Use

The original law only requires the payot not to be removed, though they can be cut or trimmed but not with a razor, or blade sliding along the skin. Similarly, shaving facial hair was also prohibited. Since the advent of the electric razor, those models that function on the principle of a scissor would make shaving easy for many Modern Orthodox men.

Within Haredi Judaism and particularly within Hasidic Judaism most men tend not to shave and quite a few grow payot that they were either rolled up behind their ears, shortened and tucked behind the ear, or fully grown and twirled to wrap up its length. Hasidic communities regard the prohibition more strictly and traditionally require the hair to grow uncut. Many Hasidim also have very long curled payot (locks) in order to emphasize their observance of the prohibition and their identity as Hasidic Jews.