- Halacha
- Shaving
Razor Shaving
Question
Why are women permitted to shave with a razor, whilst men are not?
Answer
The Talmud in tractate Kidushin 35b answers your very question, and two reasons are brought.
A. Women don't normally grow a beard.
B. It's learned from a verse that excludes women from this prohibition – speaking to men only.

Shaving ones beard
Various Rabbis | 20 Iyyar 5763

Depilatory Creams
Rabbi David Sperling | Cheshvan 8, 5781

Beard on Face of Man
Rabbi Elchanan Lewis | 10 Tishrei 5765

Plucking facial hair
Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Iyyar 24, 5768

Rabbi Elchanan Lewis
Former Rabbi of Jewish congregation in Perth, Australia

Old-New Testament
9 Tammuz 5764

Rabbi & Rebbe
9 Tammuz 5764

Young Guests
13 Tammuz 5764

Picking a Butcher Shop
9 Tammuz 5764

Do non-Jews or non-Noahides go to heaven?
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Cheshvan 7, 5779

Do non-Jews or non-Noahides go to heaven?
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Cheshvan 7, 5779
Jewelry for men
Rabbi Moshe Leib Halberstadt | Adar 21, 5770
Genesis 24: 2-9 – Put your hand under my thigh
Rabbi Moshe Leib Halberstadt | Tevet 26, 5770

Dairy mug and meat sponge
Rabbi Yoel Lieberman | Shevat 10, 5783
Praying with people placing Tefillin on forehead?
Rabbi Moshe Leib Halberstadt | Shevat 9, 5783
