Comments on: Greenfield & Fidler Vote Against Board of Health Nomination in Response to Metzitzah B’peh

By: Mark Levin

Mark Levin — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 00:07:33 +0000

1. It is a crying shame that you don’t understand that THE. GOAL of all this is to abolish bris milah, nothing more & nothing less. To think anything different means you simply have your head in the sand.

I know of a story where a non affiliated family who would have done a bris on their son, k’daas uk’din, will be having a doctor circumcise their son because of all the manure they’ve heard from mamzer bloomberg who will rot in hell with the rest of our sonim!

This is one story which means there are plenty more!!!

GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE SAND!!!!

By: deepthinker

deepthinker — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 21:12:22 +0000

You are all missing the main point about this regulation.
Rav Eliashiv,ZT”L, stated that is is aimed at ALL Beis Milah.

By somehow implying that the Mohels are irresponsible and don’t care about the health of our children, this regulation has successfully demonized the whole class of mohels in the eyes of non-Orthodox Jews who know nothing about the fine points of Metzizah b”peh.

Those Jews have stopped Bris Milah entirely, fearing for the safety of their children, according to mohels all over the city. Even secular Jews in Israel have heard the news and stopped Bris Milah.

That is the real plan, the hidden agenda, which Rav Eliashiv understood. To take ALL Bris Milah out of our shuls and move them to hospitals, where they will cost thousands of dollars.

Wake up!

By: BarryLS1

BarryLS1 — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:30:39 +0000

#3. So what? It’s not a Halachic requirement. It can also be done through a glass tube, so there is no direct contact. Children have been harmed, so there is a real danger.

How about having the Mohel submit to medical testing and bring proof that he doesn’t have herpies or some other transmitted disease?

By: yosef stern

yosef stern — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 18:40:58 +0000

No we at least have a feeling of what it means to be מוסר נפש for a mitzvah in our generation.

By: Baltokayer

Baltokayer — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 18:31:50 +0000

Reply to #1. Because some Jewish, not frum, parents might believe that there is REAL DANGER, & refuse to sign. There is more danger in crossing Ocean Pkwy, Eastern Pkwy or Queens Blvd.

By: ujm

ujm — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:17:33 +0000

Who really cares. Very few, if any, mohelim who perform Metzitza BPeh bother getting any consent forms signed. The regulation is routinely ignored. And the BOH is toothless to do anything about it, unless they intend to station police officers in every synagogue to witness whether MBP was performed or not. And the cannot constitutionally place officers in synagogues.

By: BarryLS1

BarryLS1 — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 16:19:55 +0000

Typical cowardly politicians. The story itself is nonsense. Since when is getting parental consent for metzitzah b’peh infringing on Bris Milah? It’s an optional proceedure anyway and there have been children harmed.

Implying that a parental consent form infringes on religious liberty is patently obsurd. This is why its so hard to take people seriously today, when they distort the issue and exaggerate its nature.

I said this before, at my son’s Bris, my Chasidish Rov asked me permission to perform metzitzah b’peh. If anything, the consent form protects the Mohel from a later claim that it was unauthorized. Why is every molehill turned into a mountain?