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  • #604295
    YehudahTzvi
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    Not judging. Serious question.

    #887930
    Sam2
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    First of all, many Goyim were circumcised as babies so many Geirim only get a Hatafah. And when an adult Ger has an actual bris, it’s almost always done in a hospital where I doubt they allow M’tzitzah B’peh. So the question is probably moot.

    Ironically, the whole controversy about M’tzitza B’peh probably wouldn’t apply to an adult. The whole issue that those who are concerned about it has is that direct blood contact with a virus by a baby can be very dangerous to the still developing immune system. There is no such concern at all by an adult with a properly developed immune system (who was probably exposed to Herpes Symplex before anyway).

    To answer your question, the man has just undergone an excruciatingly painful procedure. I’m sure there’s no Chashash of anything inappropriate at all.

    #887931
    Englishman
    Member

    Well, Sam2. You didn’t quite answer the OP’s question. 150 years ago, would an adult Ger who never had a circumcision receive MBP by his Bris Milah at a private facility from a Mohel or not?

    #887932
    RebRY
    Member

    Yes a ger does need metzitza b’peh who did not have a milah before.

    #887933
    Sam2
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    Englisham: I think I did. You didn’t see my last paragraph?

    #887934
    Englishman
    Member

    Sam2: It wasn’t directly saying yes or no. But I now understand you to mean that, yes, MBP is done as part of the adult milah, but there is no chashash of there being anything inappropriate with it.

    By the way, can an adult receiving a (full) bris milah for the first time, do so under anesthesia (with a mohel doing the bris after he is medically put under anesthesia)?

    #887935
    TheGoq
    Participant

    “(who was probably exposed to Herpes Symplex before anyway).”

    sam2 are you implying all goyim have social diseases?

    #887936
    Sam2
    Participant

    Englishman: Why not? I recall no Halachic reason that he can’t. I would presume that that is what is done nowadays.

    #887937
    RebRY
    Member

    A lot of times even if someone had a medical milah he has to have it redone by a mohel because the doctor does not cut off everything that is required by Halacha. The mohel does do metzitza b’peh or at least a chasidish mohel does. I am a ger so I know about these things.

    #887938
    Sam2
    Participant

    RebRY: Good point. The medical circumcision sometimes does not do the Priah but I have heard that the clamps they use often accomplish the Priah anyway.

    #887939

    Goq – actually, practically every human being on earth has been exposed to multiple strains of the Herpes virus throughout their life (including you and me). Look it up.

    #887940
    Sam2
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    Goq: Herpes Symplex (the one that many are worried will cause harm if Metzitzah B’peh is done) is carried by something like 96% of the population. It’s not to be confused with the “famous” type of herpes. This type is relatively harmless and we all are exposed to it and have immune defenses against it. What those against M’tzitzah B’peh point out is that a baby with a still-developing immune system and direct fluid contact (saliva on an open wound) might be susceptible to it and it could cause a fever (or C”V worse), which can have terrible effects on the baby’s development to have a fever that young.

    #887941
    TheGoq
    Participant

    Thanks for the clarification sam2 and curious.

    #887942
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Anyone else read that yated article about this a couple weeks back?

    Apparently, the more common way infants contract herpes is from family members. In one of the infamous cases, the baby’s older toddler brother had open herpes sores, and had sucked the baby’s pacifier and put it back in before anyone could stop him. The mother had tried to tell this to the investigators, but they were only interested in talking about milah.

    You can confirm this by googling “infant herpes simplex” and see that it is normally spread to infants through casual skin to skin contact from a carrier who has an active lesion.

    #887943
    HaLeiVi
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    Yeah, I read that. I thought I saw it on this site. I wonder why they post these articles including the mention that the herpes was contracted through Metzitza, when that wasn’t proven to be the source

    #887944
    Mammele
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    If what the mother in that case is claiming is true, it proves bloomberg and company have an agenda and we better toughen our stance. Also, can the newspapers be sued for defamation of religious practice (or something else) as I don’t remember reading “allegedly” contracted, just contacted through the ancient practice…

    #887945
    Health
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    Mammele- “If what the mother in that case is claiming is true, it proves bloomberg and company have an agenda and we better toughen our stance. Also, can the newspapers be sued for defamation of religious practice (or something else) as I don’t remember reading “allegedly” contracted, just contacted through the ancient practice…”

    The only ones that could be sued is the Gov. if they actually outlaw this. This issue smells all the way to ____! I looked at the article and scientifically there doesn’t seem to be any conclusive proof that HSV is transmitted by MBP. This is the problem with having a Non-Frum Mayor. They don’t care a drop about religious practices -so they jump on the bandwagon if they will look PC!

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