[Am-info] Re: Foreskin of Technology, and technical discussions

[Glenn T. Livezey, Ph.D.]

"John J. Urbaniak" <jjurban@attglobal.net> wrote
> To: Geoffrey <esoteric@3times25.net>
> Subject: Re: [Am-info] Re: Foreskin of technology
> Geoffrey wrote:
>>sturde@az.com wrote:
>>> Someday you should meet a moil.
>> I have to admit, I had to look it up, but M-W doesn't enlighten me 
>>here: 1:  hard work : DRUDGERY, 2 : CONFUSION, TURMOIL
>> Would you care to??
>It's a person (Rabbi?) who performs circumcisions.  But I thought it 
>was spelled moyle.  I'm not Jewish. John

Talk about off topic (or is that 'off the top'? ;-), but to answer...

mohel 
  (Heb. from m.h.l, cut, circumcise, cognate with milah) Jewish ritual 
circumcisor. Need not be a rabbi or a man. May be a doctor. 
(pl. mohalim, fem. mohalet, fem. pl. mohalot.) Mohalot are an 
innovation of the Reform movement, not recognised by Orthodox Judaism. 
There has been no corresponding agitation by mohalim to be allowed to 
circumcise baby girls. 

moyle/moyil 
     Yiddish for mohel 

FROM: http://www.circumstitions.com/Glossary2.html#RITUAL

And I'm not Jewish either, but I am... oh never mind.

Glenn
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