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'No circumcision for my son – it's not moral'
Adi Reshef
Published: 21.10.15, 23:13
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1. circumcision
caleb ,   israel   (10.21.15)
"It's a myth that I want to smash. A Jew is a person born to a Jewish mother. Often it's insulting to me that people think that my identity – Jewish, Israeli – is linked to the shape of my penis." " you blatantly contradict your theory by advancing the halachic position that any child which exits from a Jewish mother is Jewish. Correct but if the father or the beit din or the uncircumcised person does not do it to himself he is under the punishment of 'karet', the most severe punishment in the Torah and thus he is ousted/cut off from the Jewish people. You therefore opt for kicking your son out of the Jewish fold{forever}
2. CIRCUMCISION : A RAP
DA RAP ARTISTE ,   SAFED RAP HOUSE   (10.22.15)
Yo , it aint a wise decision ,to avoid circumcision , performed with great precision , no ifs or buts , just do the cuts , cause it is a sin ,not to discard the skin , and as everyone knows ,circumcision aint no skin off my nose .
3.  AS OLD AS TIME
CONFUCIUS ,   SAFED CHINA   (10.22.15)
Circumcision is as old as time itself ,it has been performed for millenia. But some modern jews imagine they know better.....Give us a break.
4. You denying ur son his spiritual protection
T.Cohen ,   London   (10.22.15)
Moshes child was about to be swallowed alive by a snake in the desert but his wife pulled him out & circumsized him saving his life - & i thought secular Israelis know the Bible better than us religious Jews!? You havent even mentioned the U.K! We also are proudly keeping Gods Command of curcumsision;) & btw the law was just passed that researched this & allows it as long as performed by qualified competent mohel/surgeon. This amendment included the statistics which btw are so rare that something goes wrong for the thousands that have done so. Pls dont go making problems when you dont know the whole picture! We cant possibly understand all the ramifications of Gods commands but we do know not to bite the Hand that feeds us! Maybe you regret having it done yourself bc u hav bad nightlife but how abt suggesting a better qualified gentle mohel instead of causing problems for us who will keep these laws!? May you live to see your sons sons return the hearts of their fathers to their people;) remember just because you prefer to b in denial & sin w.out guilt no such thing as an atheist on his deathbed so i suggest to research fairly one has to consider body AND soul since that is the makeup of each & every human being:) kol tuv!
5. who cares what the moron does
dave ,   tzfat israel   (10.22.15)
6. Is Israel losing it's soul ??
Shield of David ,   Costa Rica   (10.22.15)
Who the F--k this guy is??? What authority does he have... I believe in being secular and moderate but the very fabric and soul of Israel is changing (for Jews) (I respect the rest)... All this at a wrong time... !! Sad!!
7. See:" Lechch Lecha".Uncircumcised will be cut off !
Roland ,   london England   (10.22.15)
This man needs to re read this Parsha,and readjust his thinking for what is required to become a fully fledged Jew.The only non conformance with this Torah warning is a prevailing Medical condition,which can be addressed at a later date when the patient has been deemed fit to have Circumcission .An example of this is of a A newborn baby who can suffer from Jaundice and can have 'Brit Milah once the condition has been changed for the better.The onus is on the father to see that his child has had this procedure performed,further to which, It is a "G"D" given commandment and not for us to permit or not permit. if we want to adhere to tradition embedded in Jewish Law.
8. Someone asked the question:
Marty ,   AKL   (10.22.15)
Why God is doing this to Israel? Here's your answer. And I shall vomit you from the land. Now to more serious matters, just make sure that your boy does not serve as a combat soldier, because you know how sand get stuck there, hard to clean and boy the infections- I don't need to tell you about. On another aspect. Tell him to always introduce himself, Hi, I am David, never been circumcised. Because you don't want him to tell her after he's fallen in love. It will break his heart to see him dumped, while she runs for my son.... Hey just an advice from a sane father.
9. As the Hellenisitc 'Jews' 2000 years ago
Joseph Kadoori ,   Australia   (10.22.15)
He reminds me of the 'enlightened' abhorred Hellenistic Jews 2,000 year ago, reversed their circumcision to please the liberal Jewish opinion then. This followed the expulsion, to all Jews including their descendants, who were almost destroyed for the next 2,000 years of exile, including the Holocaust. Israel don't let history repeat itself.
10. Rani Kasher a wise man
Rovlt Beltintheface ,   USA   (10.22.15)
Rani Kasher, yes, such a wise man. It's sad he wasn't about to instruct the Lord as to this particular rite, Genesis 17.10
11. This Article
Shua ,   Jerusalem   (10.22.15)
There is no real reason to argue with the article simply because the author says straight out that he is a secularist which means that he does not want to believe any religious reasoning and apparently has self-gratification issues and feels that the hand is better than his wife
12. A medeval barbarick practice
Sylvia   (10.22.15)
Mutilating babies based on a medieval religious belief should be made illegal.
13. Circumcision
MJ   (10.22.15)
Ignorance it's what's killing my Jewish people. It is wrotten in the Torah, G.OD Himself gave this commandement. The first man circumcised was Abram becoming Abraham. Please G.OD of Israel give your people the fear of the LORD as it is said in the book of Proverbs "the fear of the LORD is the begining of wisdom". This man, his last name is Kasher, that's a shame what he is misleading and deceiving my Jewish people...he is simply an IGNORANT!!!
14. It's a myth?
Isaac Balbin ,   Melbourne, Australia   (10.22.15)
Funny. This week's Parsha EXACTLY refutes the myth. One first has to assume that the Bible is fake. If so, I'd suggest to Mr Kasher (sic) that using his value system the Uganda plan was a much more logical one. I'd also remind him that there is NOT medical consensus on this issue, if medicine is his god. I'd also suggest he consider waiting till his son is older before he vaccinates him. He has no right to vaccinate a child when there is plenty of medical doubt now about the effects of vaccines. One day, I hope his son gets married to a Jewish girl, and insists on a Brit Milah to be part of his people and tell his father off for having to do it at 24 under anaesthetic instead of quickly at 8 days old. Finally, the Queen's family use Mohelim for their circumcisions!
15. Brit Shalom
Mark D Reiss, M.D. ,   San Francisco, CA US   (10.22.15)
I have a web page called "Celebrants of Brit Shalom" http://www.britshalom.info/list.html which lists more than 200 rabbis, cantors and lay leaders who will officiate at non-cutting naming ceremonies, which we call Brit Shalom. Most US states are represented, as are many other countries, including Israel. Please contact me for more information.
16. Bravos for enlightening the public, Mr. Kasher
Michael ,   California, USA   (10.22.15)
A voice of sanity, a voice of knowhow, an enlightened voice. Israel needs badly to hear such voices for Israel is stuck with retarded customs.Mr. Kasher is a brave man and I salute him wholeheartedly.
17. What a crock of S#<T. He didn't read research
Shadoil79 ,   Jerusalem   (10.22.15)
He read fairy tales.
18. Circumcision mila
Bouskila ,   France   (10.22.15)
Dear dany kasher I have a question to you and please try to be honest and not relate to you secularism but only to your logic You said a jew is someone born to a je ish mother ! How do you know that? If not from our tora And The same tora gives order to have mila The question is why do you believethe part that make you a jew and not the part that tells you how to be a jew
19. brit mila
david rubin ,   jerusalem   (10.22.15)
Kasher needs to know that the Torah is not a health manual and we do not circumcise for health reasons
20. so now ur son is 17 & now u tell us about this?!
(10.22.15)
wow! not only are you a totally odd Jew you are also a suck-face father....why embarrass your 3 child by coming out with this now?!
21. Not moral to manipulate facts.
AARON BRODSKY ,   naples   (10.22.15)
Male circumcision is a common procedure, generally performed during the newborn period in the United States. In 2007, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) formed a multidisciplinary task force of AAP members and other stakeholders to evaluate the recent evidence on male circumcision and update the Academy's 1999 recommendations in this area. Evaluation of current evidence indicates that the health benefits of newborn male circumcision outweigh the risks and that the procedure's benefits justify access to this procedure for families who choose it. Specific benefits identified included prevention of urinary tract infections, penile cancer, and transmission of some sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has endorsed this statement.
22. No circumcision=loss of blessings of Abraham=foolish.
Rivkah   (10.22.15)
Circumcision is an EVERLASTING Commandment that will be practiced even during the Millenial reign of the Jewish Messiah Yahshua. The uncircumcised in the Holy Scriptures means the unsaved and the heathen and Gentiles who did not convert to the faith with Jewish roots by becoming Jews in their hearts. What is the heart that must be circumcised? What heart did the Apostle Paul circumcise in Timothy to allow him to follow him and preach the gospel? Was it the emotions and an ethereal cloud around them? Was it the blood pump in the chest? No! It was the heart shaped head of the penis! This father is not worthy of the name Jew. He is cursing his son instead of blessing him. What a jerk.
23. Rani Kesher will be the keynote speaker...
Brian Cohen ,   Judean Peoples Front   (10.22.15)
...at the annual memorial ceremony for the victims of fluoride poisoning in Israel. Rani is the perfect man for the job, a tzaddik bringing the light to the millions of Jews and hundreds of millions of westerners and easterners in the dark. He will eulogize the vast numbers of Israelis who have perished in horrible painful deaths at the hands of bureaucrats who put fluoride in the water. Kasher is the ideal man to speak the truth. I''ve also invited him to inform us how mammograms are the real cause of breast cancer, and I think he may answer positively and write a book about that too. It's true - all decisions must be made on reading a single article by an "expert", no matter how isolated his/her opinion. Then, brave people like him have to take the "extremely difficult process" and raise awareness that there is no need for modern medicine, let alone thousands of years of tradition. I'm hoping his next book will tell us how immunization is a lie - and clinical reseach proves that innoculations impairs life and his kids would have survived smallpox and whooping cough and diptheria. Kasher is a hero and a one man army. Well, actually, there are other whacko morons like him who actually believe the fringe bullshit that they read and then try to ram it down the throats of the majority. And don't forget to donate to the victims of fluoridation.
24. Too easy to jump on the "mutilation"-wagon. Do we also harm
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our children by imprinting them with our political inclinations when they're too young to "know"? To know what? Yes, you cannot go back from circumcision, so what?! You cannot go back from being born black either and THAT ain't such bonus in our world (admit it!) This father can do as he pleases and if he succeeds in "converting" us, then he should try telling us about Jesus, the Savior next! We are Abraham's Tribe, so bloody stick with it!!!!
25. This man is a serpent...
ORA ,   JERUSALEM   (10.22.15)
He aims under the cover of morality to achieve what Hitler did not succeed to erase the Jewish people from the world.. It is well known that the people of the Book introduced morality into the civilised world. Judaism survived other abominable enemies and is here to stay Am Israel Chai
26. Rani Kasher on "No Circumcision"
David J. Biviano ,   United States   (10.22.15)
It is so refreshing to hear a voice of reason, research and logic! Yes, doctors mix medicine and religion, and boys lose their intact penis. May reason prevail!
27. Lecha Lecha
David J. Biviano ,   United States   (10.22.15)
You acknowledge medical conditions for delaying a brit milch, but do not acknowledge there being no medical indication justifying it. I'm glad I don't believe in a G*D who demands the mutilation of the penis he created.
28. T. Cohen London
David J. Biviano ,   United States   (10.22.15)
You suggest research. Take a look at the damage done to so many men. Be warned, these are not pleasant photos, but this is the part of circumcision no one wants to deal with, even record and report. Urologists know about it, but it is a deep, dark secret. http://circumcisionharm.org/gallery1.htm
29. The decision is a personal one
Robert D. ,   Green Bay, Wi. USA   (10.22.15)
I am not as taken aback by his decision to forego Brit milah as I am his decision to try to convince others to do likewise. We are blessed with free will, and while I disagree with his conclusion, I freely concede that this is his decision to make. For himself and his family. He crosse the line when he advocates that others forgo their religious duty.
30. The man is a schmuck...plain and simple!
Koose E Mack ,   NY US   (10.22.15)
My buried foreskin has more intelligence than this guy!
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