Monday, December 9, 2013

HaGaon Reb Chaim Kanievski Shlit"a זאגט אריין פאר Larry Gordon about his (lack of) beard

















And Reb Larry is man enough to tell us about it!

I'll go out on a limb here and say that Reb Chaim doesn't do this to every clean-shaven Harry that visits him. Matter o' fact, I'll bet you 20 bucks he doesn't. So either somebody told him about Larry's Lubavitcher yichus, or maybe there is some truth to what they say about RCK.... Then again, if he was using Lubavitch he'd maybe bring up the Tzemach Tzedek on the matter?

19 comments:

chiam said...

you are off, i know otter litvish people he asked the same

Fred said...

How weird. Every litvish bucher has no tzelem elokim, why doesn't he tell them?

תם מה אומר said...

לא מבין מה שכתבת,
מאיפה ההוכחה שרח"ק מכיר את שו"ת צמח צדק?
האם בספריו אתה רואה בקיאות בספרי השו"ת של גדולי הפוסקים?
האם בפסקיו הקצרים אין התעלמות ממה שכתבו גדולי הפוסקים בשו"ת שלהם?

lozmirup said...

A lubavitcher relative of his came to visit with his bar mitzvah kid.
RCK asked him hayitochen he trims his beard. He answered so do most of your litvishe bochurim. RCY said "du zogst du bist a lubavitcher chossid un der tzemach tzedek assered"

Hirshel Tzig - הירשל ציג said...

תמיד שמעתי שהגרח"ק יודע את "כל התורה כולה", ושו"ת צ"צ חלק מן התורה לכל הדעות, אז....

schneur said...

I am not sure you are correct I know of a wealthy American nursing home owner who went to see Reb Chaim K in the apst yearand he asked him where his beard was , so I think he asks this of many people regardless of their yichus.
Juts another point Hatamim Larry's father did not have a beard either.

Fact Checker said...

Schneur is correct, his father did not have a beard,
but to be clear, Reb chaim is not too much in to achronim,his Bekius is mostly Bavli,Yerushalmi,Midroshim sifri etc... but the Tzemach Tzedek's teshuva on the beard is world famous, for anybody who starts even to delve in to the beard issue,
In pre war Poland it was discussed in Kovtzim and then in the Hungarian Tal talpios, where the Munkacher Ruv stood up to some Hungarian Rav who dared to critic the Tzemach Tzedeks teshuva

Shmeryl Tzeitelbeitel said...

What that the Temach Tzedek says that it is assur dioreisa to cut ones beard?

He is assuring not on grounds of the pasuk of shaving, but rather beged isha issues of shaving. Which i never understood. We can wear mascara on our eyes but not shave?

Not a Harry said...

Who was mattir your wearing mascara?!

Fact checker said...

Shmerel
there is a interesting letter of the Lubavicher Rebbe with a lot of comments on this teshuva.
His FIL asked him to write it, in the Berlin years,there are some strong questions there

Hersh said...

Shmeryl Tzeitelbeitel

Actually mascara and hair coloring agents are assur for men...according to many on the grounds of 'Lo Silbash'...and midoraisa according to them.

I think R. Chaim asks it even to non Lubavitchers said...

How would R. Chaim know that Leibel is a Lubavitcher? Are you saying that he has ruach hakaydesh un ken zei aysshmeken?

Yanover said...

The gemurah in daf yomi not to long ago was talking about mascara/eye liner for men and didnt have any qualms with it. perhaps in ashkenaz we dont do this but eye liner was/is common on men in Arab and persian countries.

Anonymous said...

כידוע שהגרח"ק בקי מאד בכל חדרי התורה.

facts said...

fact checker,
Not Tel Talpios, but Vaylaket Yosef.
Just so much for the facts.

Kursikaner said...

Yanover
"The gemurah in daf yomi "
which masechta is Daf Yomi? never heard of such Masechta.. is it maybe Yerushalmi? from friedlander?

Fact Checker said...

Facts
"Not Tel Talpios, but Vaylaket Yosef.
Just so much for the facts."
I wrote from my mind, did not check it, I remember that it was rehashed in some European torah journal, a good couple of years ago..

dean said...

fresser

Barry Jacobson said...

Always wondered, Mishna in Moed Katan says if one doesn't trim his beard before yontof, it is considered nivul. For that reason, they forced people to do so, by assuring shaving on yontof. How do chassidim learn this Mishna?