Hopefully his movie debut will be much better than his haircut. TB Makkot 20

The Torah prohibits a man from rounding the edge of his head based on a verse in Leviticus “You [men] shall not round off the side-growth on your head-לֹ֣א תַקִּ֔פוּ פְּאַ֖ת רֹאשְׁכֶ֑ם” (19:27) The Mishnah on today’s daf TB Makkot 20 enumerates one who runs off the side growth of his head is liable for lashes. “For rounding the edges of his head, one is liable to receive two sets of lashes, one from here, the hair adjacent to one ear, and one from there, the hair adjacent to the other ear.” (Sefaria.org translation)

The Gemara goes into much greater detail about this prohibition.

“The Sages taught: The edge of his head is the extremity of his head. And what is the extremity of his head? This is a reference to one who levels the hairline of his temples to the hairline behind his ear and to the hairline of his forehead. There is no hair behind the ears or on the forehead. One who removes the hair from the temples so that they are like those areas violates the prohibition against rounding the edges of his head.

The tanna taught a baraita before Rav Ḥisda: Both one who rounds the edges of his head and one for whom the edges of his head are rounded are flogged. Rav Ḥisda said to him: Is one who eats dates that are in a sieve [arbeila] flogged? By analogy, if a person rounded the edges of another’s head, why should the person whose head was rounded receive lashes? He performed no action. Rav Ḥisda proceeded to explain to the tanna: In response to one who says to you: Who is the tanna of the baraita? Say that it is Rabbi Yehuda, who says: In the case of a prohibition that does not involve an action, one is flogged for its violation.

“Rava says: This baraita can be explained as referring to one who rounds the edges of his head for himself, and he is liable both for rounding the edges of his head and for having the edges of his head rounded; and everyone agrees that he is flogged because he performed an action. Rav Ashi says: This baraita can be explained as referring to a case where the one for whom the edges of his head are being rounded assists the person rounding his head, by repositioning his head to facilitate that rounding, and everyone agrees that he is flogged.” (Sefaria.org translation)

Both Rambam (Mishneh Torah, The laws of idolatry, 12:1) and the Shulkhan Arukh (Yoreh De’ah 181:2) poskin one who violates this prohibition by removing the hair with a razor is lashed. 

I’ve been reading Green Lantern, comic books for decades. Earth is the only planet in entire universe that has produced more than one Green Lanter. The original Green Lantern is Alan Scott. The most famous Green Lantern is Hal Jordan. On and off our planet there are these Green Lanterns: Jon Stewart, Kyle Rayner, Jessica Cruz, Guy Gardner, Simon Baz, Jade, and Jo Mullien. At one time Guy Gardner had his own comic book series and in it he ran his bar called Warriors.

Guy Gardner, played by Nathan Fillion, makes his debut in James Gunn's upcoming "Superman" movie, which is scheduled to be released on July 11, 2025. While the character is also slated to appear in the HBO series "Lanterns," the release date for that series is currently unknown, but it's expected to be in early 2026. 

 

Guy has a distinctive haircut and if he was Jewish and lived during Talmudic times, his haircut would be a big no-no as you can see. https://www.facebook.com/p/Guy-Gardner-Warrior-Core-100088675005047/

Hopefully his movie debut will be much better than his haircut.