Brit milah

Brit milah (Hebrew: בְּרִית מִילָה‎) is the Jewish ritual circumcision ceremony performed on eight-day-old male babies.^[1] The foreskin is cut off from the end of the penis. The operation is carried out by a person called a mohel, a ritual circumciser, who has been trained and qualified for this task. This ceremony is important for many Jewish people as it is a symbol of the covenant that God made with Abraham.^{[1] [2]} Some mohels then optionally suck the blood out of the area of the circumcision wound using their mouth which is called "metzitzah b'peh" and is a tradition among many followers of Judaism.^[3][4] However this is known to possibly cause infectious diseases such as Herpes simplex.^[3]