Reply To: Star-K Article about Electric Shavers

To view the original Hebrew text of this Psak Din, see the collection of Rav Elyashiv’s letters entitled Kasvuni L’Doros (Jerusalem, 5773 page 314) and the following link:

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Following is a more clearly formatted list of the Roshei Yeshiva who joined the Gedolei HaDor (R’ Yosef Sholom Elyashiv, R’ Aharon Yehuda Leib Steinman, R’ Shmuel Halevi Wosner, R’ Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz, R’ Chaim Kanievsky, R’ Nissim Karelitz, R’ Shmuel Auerbach and R’ Noson Tzvi Finkel) in signing on to this Psak Din halachically equating all close cutting electric shavers with a razor:

Yerachmiel Ungarisher , Rosh Yeshivas Beis Medrash Elyon
R’ Dovid Mann, Rosh Yeshivas Kneses Chizkiyahu
R’ Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi, Rosh Yeshivas Ateres Yisroel
R’ Shmuel Markowitz, Rosh Yeshivas Ponovez
R’ Avrohom Erlanger, M’Roshei Yeshivas Kol Torah
R’ Yehoshua Neubort, Rosh Yeshivas Chachmas Shlomo
R’ Menachem Tzvi Berlin, Rosh Yeshivas Rabeinu Chaim Ozer
R’ Yehuda Ades, Rosh Yeshivas Kol Yaakov
R’ Baruch Shmuel Deutsch, M’Roshei Yeshivas Kol Torah
R’ Baruch Dov Povarsky, Rosh Yeshivas Ponovez
R’ Tzvi Drevkin, Rosh Yeshivas Grodno Be’er Yaakov
R’ Avinoam Postavsky, Rosh Yeshivas Birkas Yitzchok
R’ Moshe Hillel Hirsch, Rosh Yeshivas Slabodka
R’ Aviezer Philtz, Rosh Yeshivas Tifrach
R’ Baruch Weisbecker, Rosh Yeshivas Beis Matisyahu
R’ Aryeh Leib Finkel, Rosh Yeshivas Mir Brachfeld
R’ Tzvi Weisfish, Rosh Yeshivas Even Yisroel
R’ Betzalel Pinchasi, Rosh Yeshivas Birkas Efraim
R’ Amram Zaks, Rosh Yeshivas Slabodka
R’ Dov Freund, Rosh Yeshivas Imrei Tzvi
R’ Dovid Cohen, Rosh Yeshivas Chevron
R’ Dov Tzvi Karlinstein, Rosh Yeshivas Grodno
R’ Gavriel Yosef Levy, Rosh Yeshivas Be’er HaTorah
R’ Yigal Rosen, Rosh Yeshivas Ohr Yisroel
R’ Yissocher Meyer, Rosh Yeshivas Hanegev
R’ Tzvi Rotenberg, Rosh Yeshivas Beis Meir