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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.
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.
The "Brisk dynasty" and their followers (known as "Briskers") are known for a tendency towards strictness in the Halacha (Jewish law); if there is ever a doubt between two rabbinic opinions, the "Brisk way" is more likely to follow the more stringent one. They maintain that we are unable to determine Halacha as following one opinion over another.
The propagation of Kabbalah made the Jewish masses susceptible to Hasidic ideas, themselves, in essence, a popularized version of the teaching – indeed, Hasidism actually emerged when its founders determined to openly practice it, instead of remaining a secret circle of ascetics, as was the manner of almost all past kabbalists.
A Cochin Jewish man with payot. The 12th-century Jewish traveller Benjamin of Tudela wrote about the Malabari coast of Kerala: "They know the law of Moses and the prophets, and to a small extent the Talmud and Halacha." [71] European Jews sent texts to the community of Cochin Jews to teach them about normative Judaism. [citation needed]
The Jews were distinguished from their Muslim neighbours by their wearing of long sidelocks called payot and white fringed garments, similar to that of Yemenite Jews. After Israel's independence in 1948, the state organized Operation Magic Carpet in 1949 which evacuated about 45,000 Yemenite Jews threatened by political unrest from Yemen to Israel.
Ross Martin (born Martin Rosenblatt, 1920–1981), Polish-born (Jewish family) film/TV actor (Wild Wild West) Walter Matthau (1920–2000), actor [ 473 ] Anne Meara (1929–2015), comedian and actress, partner and wife of Jerry Stiller, converted to Judaism [ 474 ] [ 475 ]
The earliest piyyuá¹im date from late antiquity, the Talmudic (c. 70 – c. 500 CE) [citation needed] and Geonic periods (c. 600 – c. 1040). [1] They were "overwhelmingly from the Land of Israel or its neighbor Syria, because only there was the Hebrew language sufficiently cultivated that it could be managed with stylistic correctness, and only there could it be made to speak so expressively."