[Avodah] Leading Charedi Posek Says metzitza' Should Not Be Done Orally

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 03:31:43PM -0400, Prof. Levine wrote:
>> What's relevent is that RSK is a Litvak.
>> No news here. R' Chaim Brisker did the same over a century ago.

> And RSRH before him in the nineteenth century...

It's no surprise that a Kamentzky holds the way Litvaks hold. The Chasam
Sofer or RSRH agreeing isn't relevent.

BTW, note that this is a case where the CS held that chadash was NOT
assur.

>                                                 However, if you read the 
> entire article,  you will see
>> R' David Niederman, executive director and president of the United  
>> Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg...
> "We will continue to make metzitzah b'peh," said R' Niederman.

> Yet another instance in which Chassidus goes it own way.

Not at all!

This is a case where the Chassidim are the ones NOT changing. They are
doing what the gemara, the rishonim, the Maharil did, and Yekkes and
Litvaks are the ones who are doing something new.

Chassidim aren't doing the "going", we are. And how to mechadeshim have
the right to force others to accept their pesaq?

Realize that the health risk doesn't rise up to halachically significant
levels. There are a few cases of permanent harm among hundreds of
thousands of berisim. And while "even one is too many", the same is true
of traffic fatalities. More Jewish kinderlach die or are permanently
injured in car accidents, r"l. Do you think we have to assur letting
children cross the street, too?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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