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A young fellow recently came to the Sar HaTorah, HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky shlit”a for a brocha. After getting his name to give a brocha, the Sar HaTorah instructed him, unsolicited, to get a haircut. Whilst he had stylish hair it wasn’t particularly very long. Which demonstrates the necessity to always have a short haircut.
Joseph: Have you ever seen a picture of the Rogatchover Goan?
No it doesn’t it demonstrates that the Gadol Hador now holds you should have short hair.
Where did the term “Sar HaTorah” originate? Was it created for R’ Kanievsky, or did someone else hold the title prior?
See the MB O’CH 27:15 whether it is a chaztizta for tefilin.
“See the MB O’CH 27:15
whether it is a chaztizta for tefilin.”The Rogatchover disagrees .
What about Shimshon, Avshalom, Shmuel Hanavi, and
all other nazirim who had long hair? They wore tefillin.Perhaps Rav Chaim was telling the visitor to cut his beautiful stylish hair to avoid being a Baal Gaava.
My friend visited the Same “Sar HaTorah” who told him to grow a beard and peyos–which i guess shows he does hold the Star K
Did it occur to you that Rav Chaim was speaking to the specific bachur and commented on something that was appropriate for him?
MDG, All those mentioned were not makpid not to cut it, but the issur held their cutting back.
A king gets a haircut every day
“Did it occur to you that Rav Chaim was speaking to the specific bachur and commented on something that was appropriate for him?”
NP,
Of course not. Our resident nasty troll is actively searching for excuses to create dissent and factionalism among Jews, especially as we approach the Three Weeks.
Who is this Joseph guy??
Yabia……..He runs a chain of men’s hair salons in Willy and BP….
Yabia,
A nasty troll who doesn’t like sephardim, females, those with a secular education, those who live OOT, those who love Israel, those who shave, those who don’t take frequent haircuts and a whole host of other Jews.
coffeeaddict: what king gets a haircut everyday?
Lowerourtuition….King Donald……according to ‘unnamed sources” (you know who they are), the Trumpkopf gets his orange locks coifed every AM before his first appearance before the cameras….combination of orange spray paint, gorilla glue and hedge trimmers.
When I was in Yeshiva, the “tchuhpp” was considered by the bochurim to be a tifehress.
GH,
Showing again your incredible, blatant am hoaratzus. Most other people here know the gemara that said that a Jewish King would get a hair cut everyday. But you know so little you had to bring up Trump. Ha, it seems that Trump knows more about Yiddishkeit than you do. His Kopf is greater than yours.
Rav Chaim SHLITA has a lot of chumras based on numerous acharonim about how Yidden should dress, talk, walk, and style. Most people don’t follow even a quarter of them. One example is that there is an acharon who refers to watches as beged isha. My father was once by Rav Chaim and his gabbai Rav Amar came into the room wearing a watch. Rav Chaim motioned to him, and he smiled and put it into his pocket. Take from that story what you will.
Gadolhadorah, Trump’s hair ranges from cream white to mustard yellow. It’s his skin that is orange.
Lowerourtuition,
That’s the Halacha
רמב״ם מלכים ב:ה
I’m about to take a haircut. Am I allowed to, without flying to Israel to ask the “sar hatorah” whether he agrees with the style? Per the OP, perhaps not.
For all those who want to see huge talmidei chachomim with really big and stylish haircuts look at old pictures of bochrim in slabodka. The point was to show godluss haadom. The chofetz chiam yeshivas go with this mehalach and are much more lenient with boys hairstyles.
Nisht…..when it comes to anything Trumpkopf-related an advanced degree in what you reference as
” am hoaratzus” (great spelling) is really a survival skill. As to your assertion that “everyone knowing the gemorah” regarding the daily clipping and coiffing of malchei Yisroel, the Trumpkopf’s fixation with his hair seems more akin to the what chazal bring down in Sanhedrin (22b) regarding the Kohen Gadol’s hair stylist charged with assuring that “‘rosho shel zeh b’tzad ikaro shel zeh”hate to burst your bubble ma’am but trump isn’t half as obsessed with his hair as you are. I find it hilarious that the democrats and anti trumpers rarely can find any other topic of conversation. Every other text, comment, facebook post is some anti trump comment while the rest of us talk and post about the weather, exchange recipes and complain about carpool.
#MakeAmericaNormalAgainUp until WW1, wrist watches were only worn by women. Men used pocket watches. Soldiers in the trenches found that wearing your watch on your wrist was much ,more convenient than fishing it out of your pocket while lying on your stomach. Watchmakers started making men’s wrist watches after the war. Also, the reason that many old-timers wear an “up” hat or homberg is that the common snap brim fedora was also exclusively worn by women.
“My father was once by Rav Chaim and his gabbai Rav Amar came into the room wearing a watch. Rav Chaim motioned to him, and he smiled and put it into his pocket. Take from that story what you will.”
That Rav Chaim wasn’t terribly makpid, if he didn’t have a problem with his own gabbai wearing a watch, just not in his presence. I’m sure Rav Elyashiv didn’t remove his own watch when Rav Chaim was in the room.Ho said this story is even true
Did Rav Chaim Kanievsky tell his father-in-law, Rav Elyashiv, to take off his watch?
You can see pictures on the internet that he wore a watch.MDG,
What kind of question is that? So what if his father in law wore a watch!
If a non gebroktzer had a father in law that gebrokt would he tell him not to?
Obviously not!
Now if a rebbe that didn’t gebrokt had a talmid that did he obviously would say not to gebrokt in front of him
While Rav Eliyashev was alive, in deference to his
Father-in-law who wore a wrist watch, Rav Kanievsky would not make any mention about his opinion that a watch is beged-isha.Joseph,
Why do you assume that R’ Chaim Kanievsky is a posek?
His knowledge in torah is undisputed but that isnt enough to become a posek.i am shocked to see such disrespectful comments about our godol hador. he is by far the biggest talmid chochom in our generation if any of you would just open 1 of his sefarim you could see is vast knowledge of kol hatorah kulo!! i pity anyone who is disrespectful to him as we have seen on countless other occasions when people were disrespectful to our gedolim that they had terrible yisurim till they went to ask mechila BE CAREFUL!!!
I heard once a watch on shabbos is not a tachshit for a man as he would not wear it broken compared to a woman wearing a gold watch.
Why do you assume that R’ Chaim Kanievsky is a posek?
Whatever his disclaimer that he’s not a posek means, in fact, he does tell people what the halacha is, so I’m not sure what your issue is with calling something he instructs someone to do or not to do a psak.
A nasty troll
I don’t know either if you in real life, but Phil, you come across as much nastier than Joseph.
Masheches Tefillin:
המוצא ספר או תכריך של תפילין נותנם לחבירו וחבירו לחבירו בשבת ואפילו הם מאה אם עמו נוטלו אחד מתוך ארבע אמות ונותנו לתוך ארבע אמות שהיה ר׳ שמעון אומר כל שהוא עומד בפני ב״ד אינו עומד ולא בכתבי הקדש מי שהיה בבית הספר או בבית המדרש בבית הכסא או בבית המרחץ **ושכח לחלוץ את תפילין מכסן בשערו** ויוצא ואם אינו יכול נכנם לבית קרוב וחולצן:
One needs to be careful spreading these stories of Gedolim, Firstly they might not even be true and even if they are true , they might only apply to the direct people involved (as opposed to everyone) and lastly they might be taken diffrently by different people, Some people might see these as as the greatness of a Gadol and others as a negative in some way
A tschup isn’t as assur as a comb-over or a dye job.
These stories can cut both ways. (No pun intended). Around 30 years, i was at Rav Nachman Bulman’s house. My friend had long hair at the time. (Not sure if he still does, perhaps he, like me, is bald). Rav Bulman said to him — “if anyone every says anything about the hair, tell them that Rav Bulman said its fine.” I know, i know — this wasnt a psak and there were many reasons to do it. BUT… Rav Bulman was, among other things, a really nice person — and thus wanted this particular boy to know that Rav Bulman, for one, wasnt going to judge him.
“What’s in your head is more important than what’s on you head.” that goes for hair as well as hats and kipos.
It’s not a chiddush. It’s brought down in the shulchan aruch, as other posters have mentioned.
This thread just further proves that some people will always say whatever is the opposite of what Joseph says. Joseph, you should start a thread about the importance of keeping kosher to see what happens.
who is saying the opposite of what Joseph said?
Pretty much everyone on this thread so far. Do you really need me to list names? You can just start scrolling from the top.
Mrs. Syag; If you’ll read through the comments you’ll see that quite a few are disagreeing.
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