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

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

That was what I was getting at. It's like an attorney's strategy to bury something with a mound of papers or words.

It's a joke, right? A 1000-page sefer on growing a beard?

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.....

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?

Private schools.

Europa, Europa.

Hm ok, just pictures from the 60's and 70's.

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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Yup those filthy goyim in chutz learetz all have skin conditions and terrible contagious diseases

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.

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...

Try a Concordance.

I'm amazed at the idea of a "strictly decorative bookshelf".

Too dangerous, imagine a guest actually tries to read it.

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.

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."

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?

Or these:
http://www.hashkafah.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=821984

Or these:

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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.

Why is today different?

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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?

Nice.