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To: tejek who wrote (217742)	2/5/2005 8:57:26 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570958

The Jewish ritual of circumcision: "There are three stages required for the performance of a ritually correct circumcision in Jewish law: 1. the removal of the foreskin; 2. the tearing of the underlying membraene so as to expose the glans completely; 3. and the sucking away of the blood, m'tsitsah." Roger V. Pavey. The Kindest Cut of All. Bognor Regis, W. Sussex: New Horizon. 1981. pp. 87-88. "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].'(In other words, if a rabbi refuses to suck the blood from the foreskin he will loose his license as a Mohel or circimciser) . . . 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. Please notice that Jewish Medical Ethics guidelines are rigid and they demand that "if a rabbi refuses to suck the blood from the foreskin that he will loose his license."