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Payess, or Payoth, are locks of hair above the temples plus the top of the sideburns. The Torah states (Leviticus ch. 19) that a Jew should not shave the corners of his beard; and as an optional stringency, some go beyond not shaving those parts and grow them to various lengths.

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