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<font size=3>At 03:25 PM 3/28/2012, Micha Berger wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at
03:05:45PM -0400, Prof. Levine wrote:<br>
> From
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/cy3o66m" eudora="autourl">
http://tinyurl.com/cy3o66m</a><br>
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> Philadelphia, PA - With several recent cases of neonatal herpes
putting <br>
> the custom of metzitza b'peh back in the proverbial spotlight as
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...<br><br>
What's relevent is that RSK is a Litvak.<br>
No news here. R' Chaim Brisker did the same over a century ago.<br>
</blockquote>And RSRH before him in the nineteenth century.
However, if you read the entire article, you will see <br><br>
R’ David Niederman, executive director and president of the United Jewish
Organizations of Williamsburg, insisted that the September death of an
infant was completely unrelated to metzitza b’peh, telling The Jewish
Week that the custom has never caused either death or an
infection.<br><br>
“We will continue to make metzitzah b’peh,” said R’ Niederman.<br><br>
Yet another instance in which Chassidus goes it own way. YL<br>
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