In the sefer Da Gezairos Oraisa, the author- Rabbi Yehoshua Alter Wildman rules that it is a de’oraisa prohibition to grow a forelock (tchup) due to the prohibition of imitating the gentiles.

In the sefer Da Gezairos Oraisa, the author- Rabbi Yehoshua Alter Wildman rules that it is a de’oraisa prohibition to grow a forelock (tchup) due to the prohibition of imitating the gentiles.

Rabbi Yehoshua Alter published his sefer following the immigration of the Slabodka Yeshiva to Eretz Yisrael. Students of the yeshiva were accustomed to growing a forelock, something that was frowned upon by Jerusalem’s Charedi community.
Published in Jerusalem, 1931.
46 pages | 19 cm | Fine condition