Circumcision - A Covenant for Men and Women

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Chaim Mintz’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

somebody want to know you had mentioned that a jew was not circumcised um is outside or something like that of the covenant with god what does that mean the covenant was covenant means a a bris a treaty a non-breakable agreement between god and the jewish people that's the birth the bliss was that god will be for us as a god has special closeness to the jewish has special closeness to the jewish people and we have a special system as his nation he'll never leave us no matter what no matter what we do how bad we are he'll never leave us or punish us and knock us censor ahead to bring us back but he'll never leave us and our part of the deal was we'll never leave him no matter how much we're punishing how much we go through muhammad programs and how many inquisitions the number holocaust will never leave him that was the part of the we took upon themselves will never leave him will never leave him by himself will never leave us that was the covenant the a sign of the covenant is the bris that we call we call the burst is circumcision the sign of the covenant and this is something that we put in our body make part of ourselves it's not just a ritual but we make our body different from the nations of the world by circumcising ourselves and showing that we have sex accept except upon

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1. 0:00somebody want to know you had mentioned that a jew was not circumcised um is outside…
2. 0:30has special closeness to the jewish people and we have a special system as his nation…
3. 1:01will never leave him by himself will never leave us that was the covenant the a…
4. 1:31that we have sex accept except upon ourselves god's rule in the most important part of…
5. 2:03life of of of human immune beings is sort of through the through the bris so…
6. 2:34so what would a woman do to uh make a covenant with god a woman we…
7. 3:05considered like part of the god make this bris with the jewish people as a whole…
8. 3:36they call the iceberg that covenant the sun was made to everybody that's called the ice…
9. 4:07important i mean it's as important as abuse itself as a covenant i'm saying so everybody's…
10. 4:37everybody's included the ones who oh the sign of the bris is something that for the…

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