there was a fuss a few years ago as to "mutilation" of body of young child having bris without his consent and/or as ok since a religious thing. Then too the argument in favor of this as good medically for sanitary reasons and sexual feelings. Have a friend who was seriously involved in denouncing clitorectomies in some African nations.
But when I read about this Jewish tradition I am first reminded of Rod Stewart song: "The First Cut Is The Deepest."
So somewhere on the upper west, in a park, at the root step of a block tree, a piece of Raphael, no longer attached, is buried? Like when you buried your hermit crab in the back yard, will little Raph visit his skinned skin on his way to school in years to come?
I always wondered why my mother would let me dig near a tree in a far corner of my backyard. She told ld me the secret of the burial ground when I was 18.
Another answer from a mohel regarding the burial of the foreskin:
"One of the most common questions asked of a mohel by people who attend a bris is what is done with the foreskin after the ceremony. The simplest answer is that it should be buried shortly after the service ends. Some mohalim will place the foreskin, often wrapped in a small piece of gauze or part of a latex glove, in the ground or an above-ground planter. Some mohalim will bury several foreskins at once at the end of the day after officiating at multiple Brit Milah services. While not required by Jewish law, burying the foreskin is in keeping with time-honored Jewish tradition, which teaches that our bodies belong to God and are on loan to us during the span of our lives. Any part of our body that is removed, other than hair and fingernails, is returned to our Creator through burial, a natural process of decomposition. Sephardic Jews have the custom of burying the foreskin under a tree to express the hope that the child will have deep roots in the Jewish tradition and send branches of new growth soaring into the sky."
A supervisor at work once told me she thought circumcision was barbaric. I found it pretty offensive to call something in my culture barbaric. Another friend "boycotted" my own son's bris.
there was a fuss a few years ago as to "mutilation" of body of young child having bris without his consent and/or as ok since a religious thing. Then too the argument in favor of this as good medically for sanitary reasons and sexual feelings. Have a friend who was seriously involved in denouncing clitorectomies in some African nations.
But when I read about this Jewish tradition I am first reminded of Rod Stewart song: "The First Cut Is The Deepest."
So somewhere on the upper west, in a park, at the root step of a block tree, a piece of Raphael, no longer attached, is buried? Like when you buried your hermit crab in the back yard, will little Raph visit his skinned skin on his way to school in years to come?
I like to say they had to get me good and drunk before I got my dick skinned. Yeah, some wine on a cloth but I guess it did the trick.
I always wondered why my mother would let me dig near a tree in a far corner of my backyard. She told ld me the secret of the burial ground when I was 18.
Yikes! This should read “would NOT let me dig!”
so it was no skin off my back. Funny joke coming from a woman!😍
Thanks, I knew I had to add that line in somewhere!
Another answer from a mohel regarding the burial of the foreskin:
"One of the most common questions asked of a mohel by people who attend a bris is what is done with the foreskin after the ceremony. The simplest answer is that it should be buried shortly after the service ends. Some mohalim will place the foreskin, often wrapped in a small piece of gauze or part of a latex glove, in the ground or an above-ground planter. Some mohalim will bury several foreskins at once at the end of the day after officiating at multiple Brit Milah services. While not required by Jewish law, burying the foreskin is in keeping with time-honored Jewish tradition, which teaches that our bodies belong to God and are on loan to us during the span of our lives. Any part of our body that is removed, other than hair and fingernails, is returned to our Creator through burial, a natural process of decomposition. Sephardic Jews have the custom of burying the foreskin under a tree to express the hope that the child will have deep roots in the Jewish tradition and send branches of new growth soaring into the sky."
RABBI MARK COOPER
www.mohel.net
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Amazing business card!!!!
A supervisor at work once told me she thought circumcision was barbaric. I found it pretty offensive to call something in my culture barbaric. Another friend "boycotted" my own son's bris.