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Payot are worn by some men and boys in the Orthodox Jewish community based on an interpretation of the Tanakh's injunction against shaving the "sides" of one's head. Literally, pe'a means "corner, side, edge". There are different styles of payot among Haredi or Hasidic, Yemenite, and Chardal Jews.
It is achieved by wrapping a lock of hair around the length of a thin curling iron The curls can also be achieved by hair rollers. [1] Loose ringlets can be created just by twisting wet hair as well. Many Haredi and Hasidic Jewish men wear payot , which may be curled as ringlets.
The forbidding of shaving the corners of the head was interpreted by the Mishnah as prohibiting the hair at the temples being cut so that the hairline was a straight line from behind the ears to the forehead; [21] thus it was deemed necessary to retain sidelocks, leading to the development of a distinctly Jewish form of sidelock, known as payot.
Short title: The Jewish encyclopedia : a descriptive record of the history, religion, literature, and customs of the Jewish people from the earliest times to the present day
Summary of Mozambican Refugee Accounts of Principally Conflict-Related Experience in Mozambique Report Submitted to: Ambassador Jonathan Moore Director, Bureau for Refugee Programs
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Judeo-Urdu (Urdu: یہود اردو, romanized: yahūd urdū; Hebrew: אורדו יהודית, romanized: ūrdū yehūdīt) [1] was a dialect of the Urdu language spoken by the Baghdadi Jews in the Indian subcontinent living in the areas of Mumbai and Kolkata towards the end of the 18th century.
The format used is the printed format found in most texts of this Grace. However, the common expressions used for showing one's gratitude to the host are to say either ( תזכו = tizkū ) , meaning "Be merited," or ( ברוכים תהיו = berūkhīm tehiyū ) , meaning, "May you be blessed," or ( לעולם תחיו = leʿolam teḥiyū ...