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Our new perek (3) begins with the Mishna as follows:
"And these may shave and cut their hair on the intermediate days of a Festival: One who comes from a country overseas; and one who is released from a house of captivity; and one who comes out of prison on the intermediate days of a Festival...”
We review the Halochos of shaving on Chol Hamoed which leads us to the very license to shave in Poskim.
We explore the cultural history of shaving in antiquity and the way the beard represented an impediment to Jews wishing to participate in the enlightenment west.