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Offline Dr. Dan

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A question about circumcision of a baby newborn
« on: March 04, 2013, 11:57:03 AM »
in light of the recent tragedy of the Satmar family's car accident, I read that the baby boy born prematurely, but later passed away, was going to have a circumcision then buried with the parents. 

May none of us ever experience such a tragedy, but I was wondering how this is possible and why it can be done.
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Re: A question about circumcision of a baby newborn
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2013, 02:52:25 PM »
If he survived, would it be permisible to name him after his father?


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Re: A question about circumcision of a baby newborn
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2013, 12:19:55 AM »
If he survived, would it be permisible to name him after his father?
Yes it would have & I know of such case Rabbi Mendel Futerfas,A"H (HaRav Menachem Mendel Ben Menachem Mendel) born in Russia & later was a mashpia in Kfar Chabad Israel.

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Re: A question about circumcision of a baby newborn
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2013, 01:37:54 AM »
Sfaradim name after living grandparents but not after living parents. The only Jews I've seen named after parents are self-hating Jews who call themselves _____ Jr..


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Re: A question about circumcision of a baby newborn
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2013, 01:55:11 AM »
Sfaradim name after living grandparents but not after living parents. The only Jews I've seen named after parents are self-hating Jews who call themselves _____ Jr..

But if the child lived and the father and mother died, there would be no issue with naming him with the same name as the parents.

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Re: A question about circumcision of a baby newborn
« Reply #5 on: March 05, 2013, 02:30:29 AM »
Ok, but what about the posthumous circumcision? I know that in the commandments, a man who is not circumcised would pretty much be excluded from the community until he would have a circumcision. But how does this apply to the baby that passed away?

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Re: A question about circumcision of a baby newborn
« Reply #6 on: March 05, 2013, 02:33:59 AM »
Ok, but what about the posthumous circumcision? I know that in the commandments, a man who is not circumcised would pretty much be excluded from the community until he would have a circumcision. But how does this apply to the baby that passed away?


Does the dead baby get a name? They probably don't wait to the 8th day to do the brit followed by burial though.