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

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 04:25:38PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
> AIUI the Chassam Sofer did *not* allow the pipette, except in one case
> which was a sh'as had'chak.

The teshuvah is available at
<http://onthemainline.blogspot.com/2010/04/rabbi-moshe-sofers-responsum-on.html>.
It was only printed once, in Kokhavei Yitzchaq in 1845. So I appreciate
"Mississippi Fred MacDowell"'s taking the itime to scan it in and share
it on his blog.

The CS's teshuvah led the sho'el, his talmid R' Eliezer Horowitz, to
set policy for Vienna of metzitzah using a manual pressure and gauze. No
pipette, not even indirect use of peh, and not a one-time event.

In one of two follow-up letters, the CS writes that he permits MBP on
Shabbos because using the gauze involves chillul Shabbos.

I don't think your position is supported by the teshuvah itself. Because
of the limited circulation of the original text, there are active rumor
mills misrepresenting it. (An assertion I would think RZS agrees to, even
if he concludes that the misrepresentation is by a different rumor mill.)

The Maharam Schick appears to hold differently than his rebbe. However,
since he doesn't cite any of the CS's teshuvos, it's quite possible he
didn't know of them!

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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