Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who performs circumcision on a Jewish male as a religious rite.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A circumciser; the officiating rabbi who is specially qualified to perform the operation of circumcision.
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- noun Judaism The person who performs the
circumcision in aJewish bris
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And all the family and many close friends were there to witness it: grandparents on both sides, relatives, friends -- everyone was there to watch the rabbi, a certified surgeon, called the mohel, perform the cut, the holy cut, while saying prayers in a ritual tracing back five millennia to that day Abraham made his covenant with the one and only God.
Lanny Davis: Love of A Grandchild, the Pain of the Bris Lanny Davis 2010
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And all the family and many close friends were there to witness it: grandparents on both sides, relatives, friends -- everyone was there to watch the rabbi, a certified surgeon, called the mohel, perform the cut, the holy cut, while saying prayers in a ritual tracing back five millennia to that day Abraham made his covenant with the one and only God.
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And all the family and many close friends were there to witness it: grandparents on both sides, relatives, friends -- everyone was there to watch the rabbi, a certified surgeon, called the mohel, perform the cut, the holy cut, while saying prayers in a ritual tracing back five millennia to that day Abraham made his covenant with the one and only God.
Lanny Davis: Love of A Grandchild, the Pain of the Bris 2010
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And all the family and many close friends were there to witness it: grandparents on both sides, relatives, friends -- everyone was there to watch the rabbi, a certified surgeon, called the mohel, perform the cut, the holy cut, while saying prayers in a ritual tracing back five millennia to that day Abraham made his covenant with the one and only God.
Lanny Davis: Love of A Grandchild, the Pain of the Bris 2009
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A mohel is the person who performs ritual circumcisions, and Spielberg meant that Joan Crawford had done this for him—symbolically, of course.
Not the Girl Next Door Charlotte Chandler 2008
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A mohel is the person who performs ritual circumcisions, and Spielberg meant that Joan Crawford had done this for him—symbolically, of course.
Not the Girl Next Door Charlotte Chandler 2008
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A mohel is the person who performs ritual circumcisions, and Spielberg meant that Joan Crawford had done this for him—symbolically, of course.
Not the Girl Next Door Charlotte Chandler 2008
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A mohel is the person who performs ritual circumcisions, and Spielberg meant that Joan Crawford had done this for him—symbolically, of course.
Not the Girl Next Door Charlotte Chandler 2008
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This is done by a special rabbi, called a mohel (pronounced moyel) and is done in a ceremony, usually in the home, with lots of relatives, and is vaguely analogous to a christening.
Printing: Only in New York; These Circumcisions REALLY Suck 2006
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This is done by a special rabbi, called a mohel (pronounced moyel) and is done in a ceremony, usually in the home, with lots of relatives, and is vaguely analogous to a christening.
OpEdNews - Diary: Only in New York; These Circumcisions REALLY Suck 2006
sionnach commented on the word mohel
See bris and brisket. Also RabbiT.
November 3, 2007