[Avodah] MbP

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 12:19:07PM -0700, saul newman wrote:
: does metzitza bepeh , according to the communities that practice it,
: rise to the level of such an ikuv, that one who was gemal'ed without
: it  needs a later MbP , eg at conversion, before marriage , etc?

As already noted, a lack of metzitzah does not make one an arel. But
leaving someone an areil may be an overly strict criterion for deciding
the issue. If metzitzah is part of milah (rather than a taqanah based on
refuah) and if metzitzah must be bepeh, we're talking about the total
abandonment of a chiyuv deOraisa that is important enough to outrank
Shabbos.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha