[Avodah] Sandakos

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 07:24:19PM -0500, Jonathan Baker wrote:
:                         And how many people today take seriously the
: "syndic" part of being a "sandek"?  As in, making sure the nimol gets
: some kind of Jewish education?

Here's an idiosyncratic case... When an Israeli couple adopts a non-Jewish
child, the BD legiyur (yes, that one) push the couple to make the father
the sandek. This way, the notion that the couple serve as apitropei BD
for the giyur of the child dovetails with that of sandek.

Implied, though, is the non-trivial conclusion that the concept of
sandek/syndic has anything to do with milah legiyur.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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