RIP
Posted on 08/16/2023 6:47:27 PM PDT by Round Earther
A mohel who became a boldface name, he said his record in 45 years of performing the Jewish religious rite was 11 in a single day (including two pairs of twins).
Armed with only a scalpel, a clamp and a metal probe, Philip L. Sherman would routinely carry out his surgical mission in about 15 seconds, leave in as little as 10 minutes and hotfoot it to his car, which was probably parked illegally but perhaps spared a ticket by the inspired placard on his windshield: “Mazel Tov! Bris in progress. Please don’t ticket.”
Mr. Sherman, whose website (as well as his vanity license plate) was emoil.com, claimed to have performed some 26,000 ritual circumcisions, mostly in the New York metropolitan area, during his 45-year career. He was trained in the Jewish religious practice of brit milah — a profession generally spelled “mohel” in English and pronounced “moil.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I remember when libs were all aghast at this and wanted it stopped. Now they want the whole thing sliced off without parental permission.
I hear he marketed a line of wallets. If you touch it, it turns into a briefcase.
RIP
Ain’t that the truth?
The mohl and Booker, the library cop were the absolute best characters on Seinfeld!!!!!
https://shaarerabbi.wordpress.com/2018/01/21/theological-reflections-on-the-minneapolis-miracl/
… Shepsel Roberts was one of the few men with smicha in the entire upper midwest, and the only Mohel in several states. For decades, he travelled all over the area and up into Canada as well, performing an estimated 13,000 brisos by the time of his death in 2003, at the age of 89...
Hurt? Why, I couldn’t walk for almost a year afterward.
At least he didn’t use his teeth.
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Each to their own. This is covered under the first amendment.
But it's a barbaric practice.
Who? Where? & When??
I thought it was Bookman.
Typical libtards. Do they have jobs?
Did he ever perform in the back seat of a Royal Deluxe II
gynosociety celebrate male genital mutilation
soctired of this crap as well
You're probably right. But even a broken clock is right twice a day. They're right on this issue.
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