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To: SilentZ who wrote (241173)	7/12/2005 4:49:23 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572751

"only some of the very isolated, fervently Orthodox communities practice it," That's true, but the mezizah ritual is the standard doctrinal procedure according to the Talmud. Maimonides, one of Talmudic Judaism's saints condoned it. The Babylonian Talmud is the definitive source of dogma for Orthodox Jews. The fact that some modern Jews do not practice the "suction" (mezizah) does not take away from it's mandate in the Talmud. I read an article in an Israeli newspaper within the last two years where the chief Orthodox rabbis in Israel were beginning to demand that all Jews use the ritual because the Talmud mandates it.