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Jun 2, 2008
Free shaving cream!
The askanim have been running a campaign to get yeshiva guys, and anybody else who will listen to them and the gedolim, to stop using electric shavers.
At the beginning of Sefiras Ha'Omer, they ran ads in the Haredi papers with calls from the gedolim to stop using shavers, as they are assur.
The follow-up on this is free cream.
the Mishpacha newspaper this past week had an article describing how in a number of yeshivas, inluding Mir and Poneveszh, they have begun selling the cream that removes the hair. they are calling it a "gmach" and selling it, for now, at cost, with no profit, just to entice the guys to switch.
Looks like somebody will be making money off this issur, now that they have the "in" in these big yeshivas....
At the beginning of Sefiras Ha'Omer, they ran ads in the Haredi papers with calls from the gedolim to stop using shavers, as they are assur.
The follow-up on this is free cream.
the Mishpacha newspaper this past week had an article describing how in a number of yeshivas, inluding Mir and Poneveszh, they have begun selling the cream that removes the hair. they are calling it a "gmach" and selling it, for now, at cost, with no profit, just to entice the guys to switch.
Looks like somebody will be making money off this issur, now that they have the "in" in these big yeshivas....
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It's actually depilatory cream, not shaving cream, since this avoid shaving altogether. (Thanks to Artscroll, who came out with the Makkos gemara just in time for my high school to start learning it, I know the correct term. It comes up in the third perek, on the English side, of course.)
ReplyDeletethanks for the correction. I felt funny writing "shaving cream" because I knew that was wrong. But I could not think of the correct term.
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