Circumcision also changed drastically since Biblical times. Originally it was just the amputation of the portion of the foreskin that extended beyond the glans, or milah. Due to social pressure from the Greeks, who viewed an exposed glans as obscene, many Jewish men stretched their remaining foreskins to fully cover the glans. Many Rabbis saw this as blasphemous, so they added a second step of uncovering the glans, or periah. The first known record of this is from circa 150 AD.
Some ultra orthodox Rabbi briefly suck on the baby's dick after circumcision. I have no idea why, and I don't really care to learn.
Tradition, tradition Tradition
Circumcision also changed drastically since Biblical times. Originally it was just the amputation of the portion of the foreskin that extended beyond the glans, or milah. Due to social pressure from the Greeks, who viewed an exposed glans as obscene, many Jewish men stretched their remaining foreskins to fully cover the glans. Many Rabbis saw this as blasphemous, so they added a second step of uncovering the glans, or periah. The first known record of this is from circa 150 AD.
Once in a while in New-York, an ultraorthodox rabbi kills a baby by infecting it with herpes while sucking on the freshly mutilated penis.
Yes, herpes can kill a baby. Apparently, you need to tell some demographics to not have sexual contacts with babies, and they will do it anyway.
I hadn't heard about it causing any outbreaks, but I remember reading it causing a few babies to die.
The practice is called Metzitzah B'peh. It's one of the steps added to the circumcision ritual in the Talmudic era.