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NYC Gets Strict With Mohels

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Why
April 4, 2017 7:51 am

Can someone please explain this custom to me? Haven’t gotten an answer and have been asking for the source and reason for mbp for a while.

were dealing with holy things here
April 3, 2017 9:43 pm

the source of metzitza bpeh is not something to be taken lightly- yesudasa bharerei kodesh. We must stand firm on this issue for the kedusha of am yisroel!

Agree 100% with # 6 & # 8 completely!
April 3, 2017 4:10 pm

We’re headed backwards if we don’t do everything we can to get this new ruling or policy revoked ASAP! What’s happening to us are we becoming complacent idiots?

To all
April 3, 2017 2:41 pm

If you kid died because of a MOHEL being infect would you wave you right to sue?

Boruch N. Hoffinger
April 3, 2017 2:41 pm

I didn’t read one comment…no names.
The Rebbe, MH”M wanted to make ‘leaders’ not ‘followers.’
We don’t need fear, but courage.

Rabbi Heber is obviously right
April 3, 2017 12:58 pm

I didn’t see any clear answer why the city won’t do the DNA testing.
If they really cared and really wanted the truth, why are they afraid to get their facts straight by doing the proper testing? Maybe because the results won’t fit in with their theory that demonizes MbP…

Sick mohel can't do bris
April 3, 2017 12:51 pm

NY is looking where the money goes out of the health system to the private pockets ….
if mohel sick he can’t do it mbp use the staw or ask other mohel …. it’s still surgery must be careful

Boruch N. Hoffinger
April 3, 2017 10:56 am

Well…I read the article. R A B B I S ATTACK! The Mohels are on the defensive, perhaps they should be on the ‘offensive?’ How? Tell Marci Hamilton et.al. that their society causes far more harm to children than do ‘mohels.’ When they stop their evil practices, then we can consider them ‘models of virtue.’ Which? Look at their jail system (There is NO jail system in ‘Torah.’ It’s considered ‘Death’ and ‘barbaric.’) How? What gives this government the right to separate families? If you, or i separated a family we’d be considered evildoers. Non-violent prisoners are no physical danger… Read more »

To #2
April 3, 2017 10:37 am

If your great-grandfather would be saying what you wrote ( other known as the reformed way of thinking) we wouldn’t be Jewish today!!
That’s a scary thought

To #1
April 3, 2017 10:09 am

If you only would have known what the real intention is, you wouldn’t be writing like that. When you give a finger they want a hand! Today it’s MBP tomorrow it’s BRIS (check it up yourself, not just from collive posts) !!
If there’s a real issue, speak to Jewish professionals like HEBER and they’ll will be more than happy to address /take care of it !! We don’t need any Health Department telling us what to do regarding an essential practice in the Jewish religion!!

To #1&2
April 3, 2017 10:08 am

Ehem, I think Rabbi Heber is a professional and knows more in this area than you will probably ever. So please, do be quiet.

Mbp?
April 3, 2017 9:07 am

Trust me they are not after mbp, that’s just a front give up on this fight they’ll go after the Bris.

There’s about 500,000 brisim in New York per year they managed to concoct 2 Cases, and this is they’re phocus!?
When every patient in New York that walks in to a hospital sick from one thing, when they get heeled They’re sick from another 3 thing!, and there’s no mention !

Pure antisemitisim!!

To #2
April 3, 2017 8:49 am

Indeed. Also, the laws of kashrus aren’t needed anymore now that we have safe food-handling regulations; those should be junked too. Next is Shabbos: c’mon, is it really “work” to turn a light switch on or off? Thw laws about not taking interest: clearly, only a “fanatic” would still think to hold by those in a modern economy. And so forth…

I agree
April 3, 2017 8:39 am

Let’s wake up and be super careful with health! It’s our babies!!!!

let the father do it
April 3, 2017 8:30 am

let the avi haben that satisfies all the arguments

Let's grow up
April 3, 2017 7:33 am

Metzitza bpeh is based off outdated medical theories, and completely not necessary today. The use of a glass straw is more then OK. People need to stop being such fanatics, and look at things logically and Al pi halacha, not based off their own irrationalities.

Enough already!
April 3, 2017 7:29 am

Stop complaining and calling wolf wolf Heber. If a mohel knows he has a sore in his mouth then he should never do the metziza! I have seen many times where a mohel has asked someone else to do it because he did not want these things to happen. Stop making excuses and go about this policy as a means to be safe.

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