For more than 35 years, I have had the privilege of serving as a mohel. I have stood with thousands of families at one of the most moving and ancient moments in Jewish life: the entry of a baby boy ...
When I first met Cantor Phil Sherman, New York’s mohel to the stars, I didn’t know what was in store. A mohel is a professional circumciser who carries out the circumcision ceremony known as a Brit ...
The mitzvah of brit milah, ritual circumcision, is among the oldest continually practiced rituals in the world. For almost four thousand years, beginning with our Patriarch Abraham, almost every ...
We have seen that peru u’revu was the first mitzvah given to the first person; brit milah was the first mitzvah given to the first Jew - Avraham Avinu. Though Hashem had already given Avraham other ...
According to Jonathan Lieberman in his recent piece titled “The threat to the future of brit milah,” direct Metzitzah B’peh (oral suction) is the culprit. The practice is a Talmudic therapeutic ...
Mention circumcision in a crowd — even a virtual crowd — of liberal Jews (or liberal anything, I guess) and it never fails to spark rhetorical fire. And so, when I saw a recent post on the Park Slope ...
For more than 35 years, I have had the privilege of serving as a mohel. I have stood with thousands of families at one of the most moving and ancient moments in Jewish life: the entry of a baby boy ...
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