mohel
Americannoun
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mohalim,
plural
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mohels
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of mohel
from Hebrew
Example Sentences
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Our “Where Are They Now” story on Lorena Bobbitt erroneously reported that after her rise to national prominence she considered becoming a mohel.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2022
King Edmonds said she is not Jewish, but decided to use a mohel, a person who performs circumcisions in the Jewish faith, to perform the procedure in her home.
From Fox News ● Jan. 7, 2020
A bris includes a circumcision performed by a mohel, or a ritual circumciser, and a baby naming.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2017
A female mohel who broke with custom to allow for a topical anesthetic had been found in Riverdale.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 28, 2013
The after-treatment of the circumcised infant is governed more or less by local habits and the individual intelligence of the mohel and his experience.
From History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by Peter Charles Remondino
Earlier this month, the U.S. ambassador to Belgium, Bill White, accused the government of antisemitism for investigating mohels, specialists in ritual Jewish circumcision, who potentially lacked medical training required by the state.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
White, in his Newsmax interview, raised the case of an investigation in Antwerp into circumcisions by a small number of mohels, Jewish specialists who perform circumcisions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
But there were no mohels left in Ukraine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2023
Many of these Jews, according to rabbis and the ritual circumcisers known as mohels, are rejecting the classic festive circumcision ceremony, called a brit milah, or bris.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2013
In addition to these, burnt linen, spiders’ webs, starch-powder, powdered alum, and plaster-of-Paris powder are used by different mohels.
From History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by Peter Charles Remondino
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