i said nothing about uncircumcised men you said, but not here in America where good personal hygiene is practiced.
and i'm saying that ain't necessarily so,,,
Posted on 12/29/2013 12:50:16 PM PST by Steelfish
A Small But Growing Number of Jews Are Questioning The Ancient Ritual of Circumcision
By Michelle Boorstein December 28 When his pregnant wife first challenged circumcising their son, Mike Wallach had a gut reaction: “That’s what we do: We’re Jews!” But doubts about whether the surgery was medically necessary and concern over his wife’s opposition forced Wallach to confront some questions.
Can you be Jewish without Judaism’s oldest ritual? he says he asked himself. What does it mean to be Jewish?
Adults attending conversion classes at Sixth and I synagogue learn about the traditions behind the ancient Jewish practice of circumcision. Adults attending conversion classes at Sixth and I synagogue learn about the traditions behind the ancient Jewish practice of circumcision.
Speaking with God, the 37-year-old screenwriter and grandson of Holocaust survivors explained he was using the “free will and brain you gave me” to reject circumcision. God, he concluded, wouldn’t be impressed by the desire to do something simply “for tradition’s sake.”
“I wasn’t at peace until I had that conversation,” said Wallach, who grew up in Northwest Washington and now lives in Brooklyn.
Wallach is among a small but growing number of Jews who are slowly altering what has for millennia been considered perhaps Judaism’s core rite. The Bible says an adult Abraham circumcised himself to mark the covenant between him, his descendants and God. Any male who doesn’t circumcise, God says in Genesis, “that soul will be cut off from its people; he has broken My covenant.”
Many of these Jews, according to rabbis and the ritual circumcisers known as mohels, are rejecting the classic festive circumcision ceremony, called a brit milah, or bris. For thousands of years, Jews have performed the ritual removal of the penile foreskin on the eighth day of a boy’s life...
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The more I read the Bible, the more I realize how data rich, concise and unambiguous it is.
Circumcision was/is a sound idea, medically and esthetically/olfactoraly.
I’ve got no skin in the game.
Don’t deflect from the issue at hand, which includes the reasoning for circumcision that it poses health risks.. Where’s your proof that such STD’s and diseases affect only uncircumcised men? Waiting.. I thought so. It’s 2014 not 1514.
Perhaps I wasn’t screaming in pain after all. I was probably calling out for my mom to stop the damn doctor from hacking away at my penis.
i said nothing about uncircumcised men you said, but not here in America where good personal hygiene is practiced.
and i'm saying that ain't necessarily so,,,
didn’t bother me in the least
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