#brit milah

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Being 8 days after July 4th, July 12th is American Covenant day, the anniversary of the day the United States was circumcised.

[babydriverseeseverything]

[magnetothemagnificent]

Anyway I'll take a 60+ year old Mohel who carries around his tools in a black bag and who sings to the little baby when he prepares him before and after circumcision while the whole community gathers in a circle of love.....over the cold hands of a doctor in a whitewashed hospital room with bright lights and the smell of bleach, where the baby is far from the loving embrace of his parents, let alone his community.

[dragoneyes618]

Voltaire spoke with scorn of a God who could care whether or not people cut off their children's foreskins; thus summing up in one entertaining image the whole skeptical reaction to religious form. Spinoza, an equally severe skeptic, was not as funny as Voltaire; in fact there was little fun in him, but he was the profounder of the two. "So great importance do I attach to this sign," said he, "I am persuaded that it is sufficient by itself to maintain the separate existence of the nation for ever."

Circumcision has lately become respectable, after serving as a joke about Jews for centuries. It turns out to be sound hygiene. On the recommendation of medical science, informed people everywhere are now cutting off their children's foreskins. If Voltaire were alive he would probably have his own cut off. He might even find himself wishing, the day after the operation, that his parents had had it done for him when he was an infant.

But for Jews circumcision today, as in the past four thousand years, is not a detail of hygiene. It is the old seal of the pledge between Abraham and his Creator, a sign in the flesh, a mark at the source of life. It makes a man look different naked, all his life long, than the natural man looks. The levellers like to say that when you strip off men's clothes, nobody can tell the beggar from the king. But naked or dead, the Jew is recognizable for what he is. True, in the twentieth century this sign turns out to be not a comic mutilation, but wise prophylaxis, and so the critics of Judaism lose their old foreskin jokes. But the disclosure should hardly be a surprise. We expect the symbols of a lasting faith, where they touch the body, to be safe and intelligent in themselves, not to kill the faithful off. The Jews have followed the Mosaic law with a confidence which modern medicine progressively ratifies. The medical endorsement is not, however, the glory of Judaism. It is a footnote.

- This Is My God, Herman Wouk, pages 123-124

[jewpolls]

Not sure if this is allowed, but if it is: for people who converted or for other reasons were circumcised later in life, did you have any health issues or notice an impact on your sex life?

No - no big change to note

Yes - positive impact

Yes - slightly negative impact

Yes - very negative impact

Other

(Reason: I am curious/ a little concerned after reading an old Haaretz article about ex-USSR immigrants to Israel who regret being circumcised)

[webbo0]

Circumcize my lighter call that the Brit Bein HaBeCigarette

Jewish followers please laugh....

[b7bubby]

[jan-tonto]

nanpa 12 - telo pilin

[svartikotturinn]

Me: Yeah, share in the act of creation

Religious Jews: [Perform brit milah]

Me: No not like that—

that quote like “god gave us transness for the same reason he made grapes but not wine; yeast but no loaves — so we may partake in the divine act of creation”

[mohellosangeles]

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[mohellosangele]

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[svartikotturinn]

You tagged this ‘chop chop hehe’ as if this gloating is funny and called it ‘brave’ like you’re trying to avoid לשון הרע by calling it what it is (i.e., stupid).

Yeah… no penis, no opinion.

AMAB converts, y’all are so brave. the idea of undergoing circumcision as an adult is so scary. one of my profs was talking about circumcision and he said, and i quote, “it’s a threat. misbehave and i’ll come back for the rest.”

[transmascpetewentz]

A British mohel was just arrested in Ireland for performing a brit milah when he didn't have a goyish-recognized medical certification. If you have the emotional bandwidth, read some of the excerpts of his bail hearing. They sound like they came directly from Protocols.

Regardless of your views on the brit milah procedure, you should recognize that this arrest and the district's choice to pursue this case in particular, to deny this man bail, and to actively pursue further charges is dark-ages-level antisemitism bordering on blood libel.

A Jew was arrested for performing a Jewish ritual without being recognized as certified by goyish governments. Even though he objectively broke the law in this case, we must recognize that this event exists in the context of all antisemitism, and specifically Irish antisemitism, that came before it, especially after October.

If you are Jewish and want to daven for him, his Hebrew name is Yonatan Asher Yehudah ben Michal or יונתן אשר יהודה בן מיכל.

[aguineapigcouldntdothis]

ok explanation: I don't have a dick because I am a transgender man who hasn't gotten bottom surgery yet

amazing explanation: my brit milah went really, really, really wrong

[svartikotturinn]

Huh. I was under the impression enduring a proper brit milah was enough for young children…? I read this blog post something like 15 years ago by a girl on Israblog who talked about how she and her brother had been adopted from Lithuania, and conversion for her required going to the mikveh and little else and for him, well… she heard the screams. It was even worse for him, because he was low-functioning autistic and didn’t even understand why it was inflicted on him. (I had a few choice words to share with that girl about her parents’ actions, but that’s another story.)

I also saw this documentary on Channel 2 (back when it was a thing) about an orphanage somewhere in South America where people from around the world adopt babies, including from Israel, and they do perform the ritual on some of them so Israelis could adopt them. They showed a single man coming to the place and meeting the baby he was going to adopt, but found out the baby was intact despite being told otherwise, so instead of adopting a different baby he arranged for the act to be committed on this one as well.

So, it seems that at least where the State of Israel is concerned, that procedure is enough.

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