During his entire lifetime, R. Akiva Eger never combed his beard. He was afraid that he would, God Forbid, pluck out a hair from his beard. He therefore wore a silver wig (? Shield?)1 on his beard.
The Kotzker also did not comb his beard.
I.F.
Sanzer Rebbe
Late Hasidism was perceived and presented in research as a movement of institutionalization and entrenchment that lost the initial Hasidic renaissance, and even degenerated. Recently there have been changes in research and more complex methods and approaches have been introduced that find characteristics unique to late Hasidim.
