A Covenant With God
August 25th, 2009
On Asher’s 8th day of life we invited close friends and family over to attend his Bris, or Brit Milah if you prefer the hebrew. My parents flew in from Florida, Matthews sister Theresa drove down from Montreal and everyone else took of work for the morning to be there.
Leave it to the Jews to have to throw a party a week after giving birth but that’s what we do so that’s what we did. I’m not a very religious person but I do think that Jewish boys need to have a bris (not just be circumcised) and when your mom is Jewish, you are Jewish so there you go.
Traditionally this is done in the home by a mohel, we had ourselves a mohelet (a LADY mohel) and worked with her for a few weeks beforehand to put together the service. We incorporated some readings we liked and Matthew talked a bit about his grandparents for who Asher is named (Alice and Bill) and then we had wine and bagels. An odd but appropriate pairing.
disclaimer: I wrote this a few weeks ago but didn’t have time to deal with the pics and got it all ready to post this afternoon figuring I’d polish it off later in the week and post it. Moments ago Matthew’s sister Theresa blogged about the bris and totally beat me to it, AND did a better job of it. So go and read her post, its way better. But since mine was already written and resized and whatever I didn’t feel like deleting it. There you go.
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3 Comments Add your own
1. Helen | August 26th, 2009 at 9:45 am
I read Matthew’s sister post, but I didn’t comment, because I thought she might think that was creepy. But You looked fabulous at the bris, Momma! I did not look that good after living with a newborn for 8 days.
Also, Matthew playing Wii bowling while holding Asher? HYSTERICAL.
2. Theresa | August 26th, 2009 at 11:18 am
That is SO WEIRD. We didn’t even plan that or anything! Let me tell you, it took FOREVER for me to finish that post and I don’t even have a newborn as an excuse. There is just so much interesting information! You do look fabulous, I agree. I think I was still in the same PJs 8 days after L was born.
And Helen, please feel free to comment! I welcome (heck, I appreciate) all lurkers :)
3. Shawna | August 29th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
I think that is the most amazing experience and I love the tradition your family has held strong to.
We had both our boys circumcised on their 9th day of life, it was a great experience for us too, even without the bagels and wine!
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