Topics discussed include the influence of the film "Cut: Slicing Through the Myths of Circumcision," by Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon, how Jews in his area was able to listen to his opinion against the practice, and the need to question the practice in the Jewish law.McQuillen, Mark Daniel...
That this law was not observed the historical books disclose, and the Prophets never cease complaining about its many violations (see High Place). The Book of Joshua (xxiv. 14) presumes that while in Egypt the Hebrews had become idolaters. The Biblical records report very little concerning ...
Samuel Holdheim took sides with the Radical Reformers; David Einhorn, with a number of other rabbis, opposed the merely negative Standpoint of the Frankfurt Reform-Verein, but emphatically indorsed the view that he who disregards the law of circumcision, whatever the motive may be, is ...
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Circumcision complications and indications for ritual recircumcision--clinical experience and review of the literature The aim of this work is to review the complications of circumcision in the literature of medicine and Jewish law. One of the problems discussed in Jewish l... GS Breuer,S Walfisch...
Do Non-Orthodox Jews Care About These Issues? * Haven’t the Rabbis Always Changed the Laws? Why Can’t We? * Analogy: If Pants Don’t Fit, Shouldn’t We Alter Them? Shouldn’t We also Change Jewish Law? The Origins of the Reform, Conservative and Orthodox Movements ...
Frankly, I am not surprised at all by the series of events that ensued. Surprisingly, Agudath Israel spokesman Rabbi Avi Shafran admitted that the issue whether women may become rabbis or not is not a matter of “Torah law,” or not; in his opinion, it is morally wrong. Shafran remarked...
He was believed to be present as the angel of the covenant at the circumcision (see Elijah's Chair), or to appear as a guest at the Seder and as protector of the Jewish household whenever the door was opened on that night. Every Saturday evening his blessedintervention was invoked for ...
Cohanim (priests). (Shevuot 12a) A later law required every town to include as a permanent resident a physician who supervised the circumcision of children and looked after the communal well being. In fact, a scholar was explicitly forbidden to live in a city where there was no physician. ...
Maimonides (1186, p. 379) explains that this law can only be kept and perpetuated if circumcision is performed when the child is of a very young age because of three reasons. First, if the operation were postponed till the boy had grown up, he would perhaps not submit to it. Second, ...