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A 4 page paper which compares and contrasts these two ritualistic religious practices. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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However, because Christianity emerged as an alternative to Judaism, it naturally follows that the course certain rites of passages and/or how they are interpreted take would veer off into two
separate directions. Two of the most important events in life and religion are birth and death. The ways in which each is celebrated are rigidly defined in accordance
with the theological dogma of Judaism and Christianity. They symbolize for the rest of the world what it means to be regarded as either a Jew or a Christian.
Circumcision (brit milah) is one of the most revered of Jewish sacraments (Geffen, 1993). On the eighth day of a newborn Jewish boys life, the Torah demands that a
circumcision be carried out even if the eighth day should happen to occur on either the Sabbath or Yom Kippur (Geffen, 1993). Circumcision, which had historically been performed by
a Jewish specialist known as a mohel but is now presided over by a physician, consists of three steps: the cutting away of the penile foreskin with a knife (milah),
the removal of the membrane that covers the glans, and the drawing of blood from the incision into the penile shaft to signify the "blood of the covenant" (Geffen, 1993,
p. 28). It is a time-honored ceremony that is concluded when a family member (usually the father) announces that the male child has officially entered the covenant of Abraham,
the father of the Israelites (Geffen, 1993). After the circumcision, the boy receives his name, which is then toasted by family and friends over goblets of wine and then
followed by a sacred meal (seudat mitzvah) and prayers (Geffen, 1993). The circumcision, in essence, announces that there is another son of Abraham. In the Christian Bible,
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