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Announcing the long awaited
publication of the sefer


Hadras Ponim Zokon*

an encyclopedic work

regarding the growth and cutting of the beard

in halachic perspective

Expanded 3rd edition


1,024 pages

(approximately 200 more pages than the 2nd edition;

300 more pages than the 1st edition)



Full color cover design -- beautiful gift item



Special very low discount price: $16.00



Available at your local sefarim stores


Published with the Haskamos of the Greatest Halachic Authorities of our Times
artscroll
A thousand pages?
melech
QUOTE(artscroll @ Mar 29 2007, 09:37 AM) [snapback]814557[/snapback]
A thousand pages?

http://store.kehotonline.com/index.php?stocknumber=HL-HADR
And for $16, sounds like a bargain.

However, my rule of thumb is that the more pages somebody needs to make an argument, the less of a slam dunk it is.

Although I wonder if any of these pictures are in it:
http://www.uoregon.edu/~rkimble/Mirweb/Mir...ewisFriends.jpg
http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org...3/p7/p23748.gif
artscroll
QUOTE(melech @ Mar 29 2007, 09:51 AM) [snapback]814564[/snapback]
http://store.kehotonline.com/index.php?stocknumber=HL-HADR
And for $16, sounds like a bargain.

However, my rule of thumb is that the more pages somebody needs to make an argument, the less of a slam dunk it is.

That was what I was getting at. It's like an attorney's strategy to bury something with a mound of papers or words.
The Rabbi
It's a joke, right? A 1000-page sefer on growing a beard?
melech
QUOTE(The Rabbi @ Mar 29 2007, 10:04 AM) [snapback]814586[/snapback]
It's a joke, right? A 1000-page sefer on growing a beard?

Bet you thought it just comes naturally to people.
Kalashnikover_Rebbe
QUOTE(melech @ Mar 29 2007, 04:12 PM) [snapback]814601[/snapback]
Bet you thought it just comes naturally to people.

I think the fact that someone feels the NEED to write a 1000 page book on something that SHOULD come naturally to people says something about the overall spiritual state of Klal Yisrael today.....

Besides it shows the tremendous amount of material out there in favor of the subject. I don't surmise that someone writing a sefer in FAVOR of shaving could manage to make it more than 5 or 10 pages WITH pictures...

And Gedolim pictures from Europe will be a "riyah" for beards when they are also a riyah for snyus, sorry TZnyus.....
melech
QUOTE(Kalashnikover_Rebbe @ Mar 29 2007, 10:48 AM) [snapback]814646[/snapback]
And Gedolim pictures from Europe will be a "riyah" for beards when they are also a riyah for snyus, sorry TZnyus.....

R. Falk has already ruled that pictures from Europe are indeed not riyah because they were all necessarily taken in private gardens.
Bluelaptop
QUOTE(melech @ Mar 29 2007, 11:17 AM) [snapback]814695[/snapback]
R. Falk has already ruled that pictures from Europe are indeed not riyah because they were all necessarily taken in private gardens.

What would he say about American school pictures from the '60's?
artscroll
QUOTE(Bluelaptop @ Mar 29 2007, 11:37 AM) [snapback]814728[/snapback]
What would he say about school pictures from the '60's?

Private schools.
artscroll


Europa, Europa.
Bluelaptop
QUOTE(artscroll @ Mar 29 2007, 11:41 AM) [snapback]814734[/snapback]
Private schools.

Hm ok, just pictures from the 60's and 70's.
p_almonius
There was an ad I saw in two free Hebrew newspapers last Shabbat, "Basheva" (Arutz Sheva) and "Hashavua" (haredi, but they call the Chief Rabbis "Harav Hagaon", I don't know if that means they think that haredim have taken over the rabbinut, or they're just being polite), which I no longer have (I threw out the pile of newspapers before Pesach) that claimed that someone was selling reconditioned shavers as new, and this was dangerous as one doesn't know what sort of incurable skin condition or other dire illness the non-Jew had so people should be careful. It didn't say who was selling these shavers or how one should be careful - if it was placed by an importer or retailer of shavers it would have contained info on how to buy a new one, as it is it hurts legitimate sellers as much as the unnamed con artists - so I wondered if it was put there in order to get people to not shave. Or maybe it was placed by the folks who sell depilatory creams or powders.
p_almonius
QUOTE(p_almonius @ Apr 4 2007, 01:08 PM) [snapback]816696[/snapback]
There was an ad I saw in two free Hebrew newspapers last Shabbat, "Basheva" (Arutz Sheva) and "Hashavua" (haredi, but they call the Chief Rabbis "Harav Hagaon", I don't know if that means they think that haredim have taken over the rabbinut, or they're just being polite), which I no longer have (I threw out the pile of newspapers before Pesach) that claimed that someone was selling reconditioned shavers as new, and this was dangerous as one doesn't know what sort of incurable skin condition or other dire illness the non-Jew had so people should be careful. It didn't say who was selling these shavers or how one should be careful - if it was placed by an importer or retailer of shavers it would have contained info on how to buy a new one, as it is it hurts legitimate sellers as much as the unnamed con artists - so I wondered if it was put there in order to get people to not shave. Or maybe it was placed by the folks who sell depilatory creams or powders.

I found the ad at My Right Wordl, by way of Dov Bear
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Kalashnikover_Rebbe
Yup those filthy goyim in chutz learetz all have skin conditions and terrible contagious diseases rolleyes.gif
Pure Myrrh
QUOTE(wolfson @ Mar 28 2007, 08:09 PM) [snapback]814357[/snapback]
Announcing the long awaited
publication of the sefer


Hadras Ponim Zokon*

an encyclopedic work

regarding the growth and cutting of the beard

in halachic perspective

Expanded 3rd edition

The first and second editions have already been out for years, yet people have been "long awaiting" the arrival of this, the third edition? The first two must have not been all that compelling....but I guess this one will be different.....
grend123
QUOTE(Pure Myrrh @ Apr 8 2007, 11:20 AM) [snapback]817554[/snapback]
The first and second editions have already been out for years, yet people have been "long awaiting" the arrival of this, the third edition? The first two must have not been all that compelling....but I guess this one will be different.....


I for one have been awaiting it. I'm decorating, and there's unfortunately no sefarim equivalent of buying books by the yard. I need some massive volumes likes this to add some heft to my bookshelf on the cheap. I've already distributed 3 Oz Vehadar Levushas among my books, but people start noticing too many repeats, even in a strictly decorative bookshelf.
Gabbe
That's a great idea. I wonder if there would be a market for cardboard bookshelf-inserts that look like the binding of seforim. Like you could have one large insert for the whole set of Shulchan Aruch...
existwhere?
QUOTE(grend123 @ Apr 8 2007, 03:23 PM) [snapback]817586[/snapback]
I for one have been awaiting it. I'm decorating, and there's unfortunately no sefarim equivalent of buying books by the yard. I need some massive volumes likes this to add some heft to my bookshelf on the cheap. I've already distributed 3 Oz Vehadar Levushas among my books, but people start noticing too many repeats, even in a strictly decorative bookshelf.

Try a Concordance.

I'm amazed at the idea of a "strictly decorative bookshelf".
QUOTE(It @ Apr 8 2007, 03:58 PM) [snapback]817593[/snapback]
That's a great idea. I wonder if there would be a market for cardboard bookshelf-inserts that look like the binding of seforim. Like you could have one large insert for the whole set of Shulchan Aruch...

Too dangerous, imagine a guest actually tries to read it.
Kalashnikover_Rebbe
QUOTE(grend123 @ Apr 8 2007, 10:23 PM) [snapback]817586[/snapback]
I for one have been awaiting it. I'm decorating, and there's unfortunately no sefarim equivalent of buying books by the yard. I need some massive volumes likes this to add some heft to my bookshelf on the cheap. I've already distributed 3 Oz Vehadar Levushas among my books, but people start noticing too many repeats, even in a strictly decorative bookshelf.


If you're really in a bind, you can take Jastrow off of the bathroom floor and put it in the bookshelf........
grend123
QUOTE(Kalashnikover_Rebbe @ Apr 11 2007, 05:27 AM) [snapback]817771[/snapback]
If you're really in a bind, you can take Jastrow off of the bathroom floor and put it in the bookshelf........


I like dictionaries. I have a Jastrow next to a Frank and an Oxford Hebrew. I don't care for the Arami/Ivri, but if I had 250 dollars to spend on it I'd love to buy a Sokolow.

If I was going to fill my shelves with junk though I'd just gather up the "sippurei chassidim" and "maase tzadikim" books from the garage. I've held onto them because I've found - and tell me this isn't pilai pelaim - that the cornier the stories, the longer the pages last when used to line a birdcage. It's as if the kedusha seeps out and allows the bird to shed some klipot, which is great because otherwise the klipot just collect at the bottom of the cage and I have to clean 'em.
The Rabbi
QUOTE
Halachic Ruling
Regarding
Cutting the Beard
By HaGaon Rav Yosef Rosen, z’l
The Rogatchover Gaon
Shaalos U’Teshuvos Tzafnas Paneach, Vol. 4, #258:
“Concerning the prohibition of cutting the beard
with scissors...in truth, I have explained at length that
it is certainly a Biblical prohibition, just that lashes
are not administered...it is definitely a Biblical
prohibition...they should be very careful not to trim the
beard, for this is an absolute prohibition...they should
desist from doing so”
For a comprehensive treatment of this subject see:
Sefer Hadras Ponim Zokon / by Rabbi Moshe Wiener / The Cutting and Growth of the Beard in
Halachic Perspective / Published with the endorsements of the Leading Halachic Authorities
of our Times / 900 pages (in enlarged third edition)
Short
QUOTE(existwhere? @ Apr 11 2007, 12:07 AM) [snapback]817709[/snapback]
I'm amazed at the idea of a "strictly decorative bookshelf".

A yingerman in my 'hood allows his wife to do his seforim shopping. "Antshuldigt, yes, I'm looking for a set of sforim, green covers, about 10 inches high and 6 inches wide. 3 volumes or 2 thick ones would be best."

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existwhere?
QUOTE(WillyWonka @ Apr 15 2007, 01:20 AM) [snapback]819633[/snapback]
A yingerman in my 'hood allows his wife to do his seforim shopping. "Antshuldigt, yes, I'm looking for a set of sforim, green covers, about 10 inches high and 6 inches wide. 3 volumes or 2 thick ones would be best."

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Menachem E
its a good sefer - a guy in my yeshivah also wrote a kuntrus based on it called Shiches Lo - itappy i donts really infromative - eitherway i dont shave cuz of my own choices but after reading that sefer im happy i dont shave -
Gabbe
QUOTE(Menachem E @ Apr 17 2007, 12:31 PM) [snapback]821267[/snapback]
its a good sefer - a guy in my yeshivah also wrote a kuntrus based on it called Shiches Lo - itappy i donts really infromative - eitherway i dont shave cuz of my own choices but after reading that sefer im happy i dont shave -

What number language is English for you?
melech
QUOTE(melech @ Mar 29 2007, 09:51 AM) [snapback]814564[/snapback]
http://store.kehotonline.com/index.php?stocknumber=HL-HADR
And for $16, sounds like a bargain.

However, my rule of thumb is that the more pages somebody needs to make an argument, the less of a slam dunk it is.

Although I wonder if any of these pictures are in it:
http://www.uoregon.edu/~rkimble/Mirweb/Mir...ewisFriends.jpg
http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org...3/p7/p23748.gif

Or these:
http://www.hashkafah.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=821984
Bezalel99
QUOTE(melech @ Mar 29 2007, 09:51 AM) [snapback]814564[/snapback]
I wonder if any of these pictures are in it:


Or these:

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motcha
Reb Aron Kotler encouraged bochrim to shave! (Although that was to make bochrim look respectable. Today thats not a need.) I know of no movement in the yeshivisha velt in America encouraging bochrim to not shave.
melech
QUOTE(motcha @ Apr 19 2007, 10:13 PM) [snapback]823388[/snapback]
Reb Aron Kotler encouraged bochrim to shave! (Although that was to make bochrim look respectable. Today thats not a need.)

Why is today different?
Ahavati
QUOTE(Bezalel99 @ Apr 18 2007, 04:01 PM) [snapback]822427[/snapback]



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They were great in concert.

Did you know that Bic offered them each a million dollars to shave back in the 80's?
shaya_getzl

Announcing the long awaited


publication of the sefer

Hadras Ponim Zokon Strikes Back
( women's edition )

an even more so encyclopedic work

regarding the growth and cutting of ...

... can't really tell you as it is a family friendly forum ...

Expanded 3rd edition
With Illustrations
And Recipes Involving Havdalah Wine

Published with the Haskamos of the Greatest Halachic Authority of the Future Times



Ahavati
Nice.
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