Shalom, To all beard keeping Torah believers, what..

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Shalom, To all beard keeping Torah believers, what is your understanding of keeping those beards, is it fashion, a tradition or three is a deeper meaning?
Please share your thoughts before I share with you what the Hebrew letters say!

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I can't say that it was any of the options. For me it started with my investigation into "not rounding the corners of your beard" as I had a goaty since leaving school. Over time my understanding of a full beard changed, but I then just stuck with a beard as I didn't want to have a goaty any longer.

It might just be in my head, but a full beard does make me feel a bit set apart; like a head covering feels for my wife,

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Fashion. I had a full beard before keeping Torah.

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I will admit I struggle with this also. Of all the commentaries I have read (and they didn't help much) for me it was David's response to the spies who had half of their beard shaved. David told them to remain in Jericho until their beard grew out. Why not simply advise them to shave the rest? Was it because the people would see them as failures or was there more to his reasoning? To err on the side of caution I keep mine, but that is something each of us must work out with fear and trembling.

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I understand the command to be about design. I choose not to trim my beard, because the design appears for it to grow to whatever length God desires for each individual.

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I believe the hair He has given us has been meant to grow... let it grow and it will naturally stop where He intended.... I just need to work on this more myself It is also my understanding that hair is something that is used to sense ones surroundings and be more in tuned with Yah. It's like our feelers! The idea of cutting it at all is a man-made tradition.

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