Q&A: Shaving a Beard on Chol HaMoed
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Shaving a Beard on Chol HaMoed
Question
Is it permitted to shave on Chol HaMoed with the clipper length setting that I usually use to shave, if I also shaved that way on the eve of the holiday?
Answer
I didn’t understand. What do you mean by a number setting?
Discussion on Answer
If that’s the way you shave, then that’s what they required to be done before the holiday and not during the holiday itself. Still, regardless of the settings, there is reasoning that nowadays there is no prohibition against shaving on Chol HaMoed, and several halakhic decisors have written that way.
The hair length in millimeters. In other words, trimming the beard rather than a complete shave, if that makes any difference..