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Home -- Content: Series 7 (Laws) -- Translation: English -- Book: 1 (Tora) -- Part: 2 (Negative) -- Prohibition: 44 -- Text The Sharia of Moses in the TORA 44 - SHAVING THE BEARDLeviticus 19:27 -- “You shall not shave around the sides of your head, nor shall you disfigure the edges of your beard.”
The Mishnah says: “For shaving off the beard one is liable on five counts: two counts for the right side, two for the left, and one for lower down. R. Eliezer says: If he took them all off in a single movement, he is liable only on one count.”*; and from this the Talmud concludes: “Hence we must conclude that R. Eliezer considers the whole process as covered by the one prohibition.”** * Mak. 20a (Sonc. ed. p. 141) ** Ibid., 21a (Sonc. ed. p. 145) This prohibition applies only to the marring of the beard with a razor; there is nothing against cutting off the beard with scissors, tweezers, or plane-like or file-like tools.* * Mishneh Torah, Mada, Hilchoth Abodath Kochabim XII, 7; also, Lev. XXI, 5, Rashi
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