<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:31 PM, <<a href="mailto:cantorwolberg@cox.net">cantorwolberg@cox.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
That's not the reason that I teach.<br>
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A boy is one week and the reason for 2 weeks for a girl baby is because of the potential life that girl will eventually give birth to. Hence, the extra week is added for the girl.<br>
ri<br>
____</blockquote></div><br><br>Question:<br>Why is Bis milah mentioned in this paragraph?<br>Answer:<br>The juxtaposition is there to teach us that the boy gets ONLY 7 days of tum;'ah because the bris mitigates the damage.<br>
The Daughter has no such mitgation<br><br>thus the intrinsic birthing is the same, it is the EXTINSIC bris that cust the boys days in half and hence its position in Parshas Ssasria<br><br>Shamati <br><br><a href="mailto:RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com">RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com</a><br>
see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>