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debka_notion ([personal profile] debka_notion) wrote2008-09-16 11:48 pm

Nifty!

I just read a teshuva from the CJLS about Conversion without a bris in a case where the bris would be potentially life threatening. It was an interesting and clear read (the answer was: currently no). But there was a footnote talking about circumcision by laser, and how that may make it possible, thus solving the problem in some cases. I enjoy such speculation...

[identity profile] debka-notion.livejournal.com 2008-09-17 11:24 am (UTC)(link)
Oops. I meant I enjoy speculation about the ways the future and halakha might interact.

But I think that people's suggestions of hemophilia are much of what is being thought of, although I imagine that there might be other situations as well.