Episode 305: The Jewish History of Circumcision - Shaye Cohen
Judaism Unbound
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Circumcision Pushes Away Shabat
Circumcision pushes aside shabat. We try to prepare an advance whatever we can, so as to minimize milatio. The other important chapter in the darem is full of rhetorical praise for circumcision and they have he whole page full of praises of circumcision. I've often wondered to myself, wondeer, what's bugging them? They don't do praises of other mid folk like this. This is unusual. You don't say, great is the misainmata. No, he donst. Go ahead and eat bosa. Great is the prohibition of eating food on yonke bor. No e gos fast o yonke bore you a whole praise
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