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It is customary that at the Lag BaOmer celebrations by the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai in Meron, Israel, boys are given their first haircuts while their parents distribute wine and sweets. Similar upsherin celebrations are held in Jerusalem at the grave of Simeon the Just for Jerusalemites who cannot travel to Meron.
According to biblical scholars, the shaving of hair, particularly of the corners of the beard, was originally a mourning custom; [8] the behaviour appears, from the Book of Jeremiah, to also have been practiced by other Semitic tribes, [9] [10] [11] although some ancient manuscripts of the text read live in remote places rather than clip the corners of their hair.
A rabbi performs the traditional first haircut on a three-year-old boy in Meron on Lag Baomer 1970. A custom dating from the time of Rabbi Isaac Luria holds that boys be given their first haircuts on Lag baOmer, and today this generally means the Lag baOmer after their third birthday.
Tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar-Yochai. Customs at the tomb include the lighting of a bonfire that traditionally goes to the Rebbes of the Boyaner dynasty [63] Boys at the age of three will often come to the tomb to receive their first haircut. [64] Another custom at the tomb of Shimon bar Yochai is the giving of Ḥai Rotel (Hebrew: ח״י רוטל).
As kabbalistic teachings spread into Slavonic lands, the custom of pe'ot became accepted there. In 1845, the practice was banned in the Russian Empire. [4]Crimean Karaites did not wear payot, and the Crimean Tatars consequently referred to them as zulufsız çufutlar ("Jews without payot"), to distinguish them from the Krymchaks, referred to as zuluflı çufutlar ("Jews with payot").
The ritual first haircut (Polish: postrzyżyny) was a pre-Christian pagan-Slavic tradition which survived in Poland well into the 18th century. This first haircut traditionally took place between the ages of 7 and 10, and was conducted by either the boy's father or a stranger, who would thus enter into the boy's family. [6]
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Shtreimel on a mannequin A rabbi dressed in shtreimel, Jerusalem. A shtreimel (Yiddish: שטרײַמל shtrayml, plural: שטרײַמלעך shtraymlekh or שטרײַמלען shtraymlen) is a fur hat worn by some Ashkenazi Jewish men, mainly members of Hasidic Judaism, on Shabbat and Jewish holidays and other festive occasions. [1]