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255/613 – Hairstyle

Yaakov, Béla Orbán

"You must not round off the corners of the hair on your head..." (Leviticus 19:27)

The hairstyle described above was the one of the antique pagan priests but we can still find them on later paintings representing all sorts of monks and priests.

The link and continuity between the two is more than obvious.

It was forbidden for all Jews to look like pagans even in the external appearance…, in the clothing style, hairstyle or in anything else...

The tradition of leaving the corner of the beard (ringlets) also comes from here…

This law is still valid today. Of course not in the pharisaic way but in its spiritual and psychical sense.

The secularization of the church really begins at the moment when people start to imitate the external signs of the world: when they mix the Holy with the wicked, when Christ’s Body opens the door to the world.

God does not want us to be prude or isolated but he wants us to distance ourselves from the pagans and the faithless.

This law is talking about hair, but it is also valid for all that concerns the external appearance.

During my youth, I experienced what we call the ”sexual revolution”.

To this revolution were connected all things that favoured rebellion such as rock music and other fashions.

It was the same for hairstyle at that time too. Long hair was the symbol of rebellion.

Clothes did also go through many changes that had the only aim to scandalize the society and the mentality of that time.

It is from about that time (1968) that the rebelled satanic powers began to work more actively in the whole world.

Since that date, human relationships and most of all weddings are especially victims of the sin coming from rebellion. The liberalisation of the illegality had started.

When we see such appearences rising again, God warns us.

Be careful because a very powerful and dangerous evil spirit is hiding behind these simple appearances: the one of Satan!

We could say that these externals "show the cloven hoof"...

Since in most popular traditions, Satan is represented with cloven hoof.