Zekan Avraham [against cutting one’s beard even with scissors]. * WITH: SCHIFFER, SINAI. Kuntress Tisporeth HaZekan [opposing text]. pp. 32, (1).

DANZIGERKROHN, ABRAHAM CHAIM.

Kahn & Fried

Munkatch

1909 and 1912

Two works in two volumes.

Danzigerkrohn’s work includes the responsa of many Rabbinic colleagues who concurred with his position of the religious impermissibility of cutting one’s beard. In response, Sinai Schiffer, Rabbi of the Orthodox secessionist community of Karlsruhe defends the practice of those who trim their beards with scissors, yet does acknowledge that those who reside in Jewish communities where the custom is to leave a beard full, should not change the accepted practice in order to avoid communal strife.