A BURNING
QUESTION
Thousands of righteous women have removed (and even burned) their very expensive Sheitels (containing hair from Hindu women)* (even though it is to the detriment of their appearance)due to a halachic ruling of the great gaon and posek Rav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv, shlita
Yet the very same Rav Elyashiv, shlita also ruled that all electric shavers which men use to remove their beards definitely have the same halachic status as a razor and their use involves violation of severe Biblical prohibitions on a daily basis**
If so —