Shaving Mustache and The Neck

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Shay Tahan’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[music] >> Everybody's taking now haircuts and shaving part of uh doing so, you need to know some of the halakhot. So, the halakhot of shaving are a little bit more complicated than the very short time that we have for this halakha, but at least we need to realize that one is not allowed to use something that has two things in it, two conditions. One is that [clears throat] it's mashchit, which means it cuts completely the entire uh hair of the beard. And secondly, that it's derekh giluaḥ. Derekh giluaḥ is this two pesukim in the Torah. One is lo tashḥit pe'at zakanekha, and one is the issur of being megale'aḥ. What is So, again, what are the two conditions? One of the conditions is that it completely cuts off the hair, leaves nothing. And secondly, that it's it's done in a normal way. So, if one takes uh for instance, scissors and cuts his beard, that's fine. Why? Although it's normal to use scissors to cut the beard,

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1. 0:01[music] >> Everybody's taking now haircuts and shaving part of uh doing so, you need to…
2. 0:33uh hair of the beard. And secondly, that it's derekh giluaḥ. Derekh giluaḥ is this two…
3. 1:03but something is always left. If you touch, you'll you'll feel that there's some hair that's…
4. 1:34the issur there's different uh rishonim that say where is the pe'ot hazakan. So, the Shulchan…
5. 2:04beard of the chin. And also Rabbeinu Chananel says that the mustache as well is part…

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