tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11287959.post111373936630394150..comments2023-11-02T12:16:19.495+02:00Comments on The Jewish Worker: Shaving on חול המועדblukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03774763780910614203noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11287959.post-1113891519940093212005-04-19T09:18:00.000+03:002005-04-19T09:18:00.000+03:00Yes, that is very similar if not the same to R' Mo...Yes, that is very similar if not the same to R' Moshe's point. R" Shachter writes this (in brief) in Nefesh Harav.<BR/><BR/>This does not invalidate what R' Willig said. If the minhag is not to shave then the Rav might agree that there is no chiyuv because of kavod yom tov.blukehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03774763780910614203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11287959.post-1113862737671834912005-04-19T01:18:00.000+03:002005-04-19T01:18:00.000+03:00if you dig this far you turn to a prejudice fast o...if you dig this far you turn to a prejudice fast or a fundamentalist,be careful, God loves free spirit people not bias ones! God blessAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11287959.post-1113857447834667282005-04-18T23:50:00.000+03:002005-04-18T23:50:00.000+03:00I once heard from RHS that the reason the Rav perm...I once heard from RHS that the reason the Rav permits (and therefore requires) shaving on Chol Hamoed was because he looked at the exceptions to the rule in the Mishna in MK, e.g, someone who was traveling or in prison, and determined that the common factor that prevented them from shaving was a physical impossibility of doing so on Erevc Yom Tov. Thus, explained the Rav, those men who shave regularly are physically prevented from shaving the chol hamoed stubble on their face before Yom Tov because the stubble simply was not present on Erev Yom Tov. Hence, those who shaved before Yom Tov and have grown some stubble by Chol Hamoed fall into the category of those the Mishna permits to shave on Chol Hamoed rather than those who the Mishna prohibits. This, explained RHS, was just one example of the Rav's applying "Siman Bet rather than Siman Aleph"--the halacha doesn't change, just the metzios!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com