[Avodah] Metz on Shabbos for hypospadias, but not otherwise

[Meir Rabi]

I thank R Ariel Folger for his clarifications.

R Arie also informs us that R' Dr. Mordechai Halpern discovered that a
properly applied metzitzah is medically indicated in the case of babies
with hypospadias (an incompletely formed urethra, with an incomplete
 orla), as in such kids there may be a smaller blood flow to the glans,
which metzitza prevents from being constricted by the sudden trauma of
circumcision.

That is excellent. I hear the Halachic argument to permit Metz on Shabbos
in such a case.

But that is almost a concession that in all other cases, where there is no
medical benefit, Metz is not to be performed on Shabbos.

Best,

Meir G. Rabi
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