Though circumcision was practiced by several of the peoples of the eastern Mediterranean, it was unknown to the Greco-Roman world; and we are told in the Books of the Maccabees that when a Greek gymnasium was opened in Jerusalem in the 2nd century BCE, the Jews who participated in its ...
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Lifetime costs would represent a much greater financial impact on health care systems. The Florida study involved males aged 1 to 17 years undergoing circumcision between 2003 and 2008 and found that Medicaid defunding was followed by a 6-fold rise in publicly funded circumcisions (cost = $...
B”H– see Baruch Hashem (yeah, right below this) ba’al teshuvah– (male) one who is a master of repentance, commonly used to refer to those who did not grow up observant and became more observant of mitzvos at a later point in life (a later point than birth, that is).female -b...
Pat (59) was angered due to the symbolic significance of this rite of passage: “Because Judaism as a race is so important to me and my being, things that are part of Judaism, like circumcision, is an important thing. If people use things like that as a way of getting at you, then...
Ishmael’s present-day successors, the Jerusalem-based Christ-believers, “persecute” the Isaac-like Galatians by insisting that these gentiles adopt Jewish practices such as circumcision rather than rely solely on the promise of salvation through Christ. (Paul takes for granted a midrashic interpre...
Specifically, they found evidence suggesting that providers prioritised circumcision work over their other duties, even if they were more urgent. One respondent noted that “For instance, if there is a patient who needs to have a caesarean done and at the same time the doctor has to go out ...
11 Brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished. 12 As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!Life...
It seems that many parents and professionals today still have notions of young children as dumb or mindless (mode 3), leading to continued mistreatment (Chamberlain, 1994). They treat babies as if they don’t feel pain (infant circumcision) or as if their crying is reflexive instead of...
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