From Our Archives: Circumcision and Modern Technology
March 31, 2011 by Shlomo Brody
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Laser Circumcision by J. David Bleich The Use of Anesthesia in Circumcision: A Re-Evaluation of the Halakhic Sources by Edward Reichman and Fred Rosner Hypospadias and Circumcision by Rabbi J. David Bleich The Making of Metzitzah – 1972 by Yehuda Pesach Shields – Shlomo Brody
From Our Archives: Parashat Lech Lecha
October 14, 2010 by Shlomo Brody
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Abraham’s Ordeals Revisited by Aryeh Spero (24:1, Fall 1988) Abraham’s Nephew Lot: A Biblical Portrait by Raymond Harari (25:1, Fall 1989) The Use of Anesthesia in Circumcision: A Re-Evaluation of the Halakhic Sources by Edward Reichman & Fred Rosner (34:3, 2000). – Shlomo Brody
Minority Views and the Role of the Mara De-Atra
August 31, 2009 by Nathaniel Helfgot
Filed under Halakha, Talmud
Minority Views and the Role of the Mara de-Atra1 By Nathaniel Helfgot There is a tannaitic dispute regarding which aspects of the performance of a circumcision push aside the Sabbath restrictions: R. Akiva maintains that only actions that could not be prepared before the Sabbath are permitted to be done for a circumcision on the [...]