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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.
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.
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]
A rabbi performs the traditional first haircut on a three-year-old boy in Meron on Lag Baomer 1970. It is customary at the Meron celebrations, dating from the time of Rabbi Isaac Luria, that three-year-old boys be given their first haircuts ( upsherin ), while their parents distribute wine and sweets.
In Yemen, unmarried girls covered their hair like their Muslim peers; [26] however, upon Yemeni Jews' emigration to Israel and other places, this custom has been abandoned. Aharon Roth praised this custom. [27] Magen Avraham ruled that while unmarried women need not cover their hair, they must braid it so that it is not disheveled. [28]
In the ancient land of Israel, it was common among more scholarly circles of Jews to clip beards. [26] Ezekiel's request for priests to keep their hair trimmed was read by the Talmudists as referring specifically to the artistic Lydian style of haircut, in which the ends of the hair of one row reaches the roots of the next. [18]
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The paintings in the catacombs permit the belief that the early Christians simply followed the fashion of their time. The short hair of the men and the braids of the women were, towards the end of the second century, curled, and arranged in tiers, while for women the hair twined about the head over the brow.