<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Regarding the suggestion that, Chazal's belief in the need </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">for metzitzah came not via any sort of scientific or empirical research </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">or observation, but via revelation or ruach hakodesh.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I dont understand what is to be gained by this assertion and I dont see how it can be justified.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Please provide some more information to support this remarkable contention.</span></p>
<br>Best,<br><br>Meir G. Rabi<br>