Definition of "mohel" []

• One who performs circumcision on a Jewish male as a religious rite. (noun)

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• "And all the family and many close friends were there to witness it: grandparents on both sides, relatives, friends -- everyone was there to watch the rabbi, a certified surgeon, called the mohel, perform the cut, the holy cut, while saying prayers in a ritual tracing back five millennia to that day Abraham made his covenant with the one and only God."
• "A mohel is the person who performs ritual circumcisions, and Spielberg meant that Joan Crawford had done this for him—symbolically, of course."
• "This is done by a special rabbi, called a mohel (pronounced moyel) and is done in a ceremony, usually in the home, with lots of relatives, and is vaguely analogous to a christening."