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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran
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To: Yaacov who wrote (8352)5/16/2005 12:01:23 PM
From: Emile Vidrine  Read Replies (1) of 22250
 
Yaacov, aren't you confusing the Iraqi manner of castration with the Jewish practice of circumcision? The Jewish talmudic practice of circumcision requires the rabbis to "suck" the penis of the baby.


Three stages required for normative and ritually correct circumcision in Jewish law:

A COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL STUDY OF THE JEWISH RELIGIOUS ATTITUDE TO MEDICINE AND ITS PRACTICE

"The method to be adopted is laid down thus: 'One excises the foreskin, [that is] the entire skin covering the glans, so that the corona is laid bare. Afterwards, one tears with the finger-nail the soft membrane underneath the skin, turning it to the sides until the flesh of the glans appears. Thereafter, one sucks the membrane until the blood is extracted from the [more] remote places, so that no danger [to the infant] may ensue; and any circumciser who does not carry out the sucking procedure is to be removed [from his office].' . . . The operation itself, then, consists of three distinct acts: the excision of the prepuce; the laceration of the mucous membrane covering the glans; and the sucking of the blood from the interior of the wound." Immanuel Jakobovits. Jewish Medical Ethics: A Comparative and Historical Study of the Jewish Religious Attitude to Medicine and Its Practice. New York: Bloch Publishing Company. 1959. pp. 193-194.
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