
Episode 305: The Jewish History of Circumcision - Shaye Cohen
Judaism Unbound
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How to Hide Your Circumcision
If there's enough skin left behind, you could sort of take that skin that's left over and kind of stretch it down. Find other ways of doing circumcision. Now it seems an antiquity. We don't have archaeological data, obviously. But we do know from various sources that there were different ways of doing it. And by the time we get the second century, y u see the rabbies endorsing a mode of cutting off the skin,. so just the skin, but also the membrane underneath anden. Once you cut off the membrane ondenea, is really nothing left to stretch, nothing lasts to pull, so that pong becomes very difficult to hide your sirosition.
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