#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

[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.”

[aguineapigcouldntdothis]

rating different ways that characters are generally revealed to be jewish in tv and movies made by (mostly) goyim:

B'nei mitzvah mention: 3/10, points taken off for laziness. kept some because it's an important event so I get why it's used

B'nei mitzvah scene: 8/10, can either be really good or really bad depending how accurate. honestly ranges from a 5/10-11/10

Chanukkah mention: 0/10, im so tired of this one its so overdone and it's always in the christmas specials. it can be done right but like that's only if jews are writing the scene

Pesach mention: 4/10, definitely a better holiday to use than chanukah because it's not done to death and it isn't automatically paired with christmas. points removed for the inevitable inaccuracies

Rosh Hashanah mention: 7.5/10 just for using a holiday that most people wouldn't think of or may not even know of

Literally any other jewish holiday: 9/10 how do you know about this who told you

Any jewish holiday scene: 7.5/10, which actually means it can range from 5-10 depending on how ridiculous and wrong the scene is making my rating perfectly average.

shabbat mention: 8/10, kinda love it. it's also really good for casual conversations because its a weekly occurrence so there's plenty of ways for it to feel natural when bringing it up in a script

shabbat dinner scene: 15/10 absolutely love it especially bc it shows character dynamics in a casual setting. if there's anything incorrect it doesn't bother me much because the ways people observe shabbat vary a lot

"im jewish": 10/10 straight to the point no notes love it

literally any mention of money/greed/power: -10/10 shut up shut up shut up why is your only jewish character rich and greedy and why is that their defining trait

antisemitic comments: -15/10 why can't you think of anything nice to say.

nose comments: -100/10 needs to be in a separate category because I hate it so much. somehow even worse when its a goyische actor wearing a prosthesis and caked on "jewish" makeup bc like how are you being fake racist rn

not even saying anything and just making it painfully obvious: 8/10, yeah that character's last name is goldberg so it's pretty clear and I like that. I do wish it was mentioned upfront though

brit milah mention: 5/10, its usually played for laughs which feels a bit weird but not weird enough for me to care. this is a true neutral

having them wear a kippah/magen david/anything visibly jewish from the second theyre introduced: 100/10 my favorite by far because it's made clear from the start and there's no question about it

[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.

[kipotz]

Samurai mohel who rapidly opens and closes the bible and suddenly you just had your brit milah

[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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