English transcript

Metzitzah B'peh is an ancient Jewish Talmudic

blood ritual, in which a mohel rabbi uses his

mouth to suck the blood from a baby's penis,

directly after it has been circumcised. This

satanic ritual has been performed for thousands

of years, and is still practiced up until this

very day on thousands of newborn babies. This

ritual has caused the death of many infants

due to the transmission of the herpes virus

that gets passed down from the rabbi to the

baby. In spite of all the potential danger to

the baby, and its sick and twisted nature, it

is still performed daily across the globe, and

it is rigorously defended by the Jewish community.

In the Halacha, in Yoreh De'ah, that's the second

section of the... uh... four sections of Halacha

called the Shulchan Aruch, the set table, in

uh chapter 266, uh Halacha 3, 4, 5 and 6, he

describes how the circumcision is to be done.

He says after the cutting, the mohel does what

is called metzitzah. And metzitzah means to

suck, and it means doing so with his mouth.

And one could say, well, why can't you use a

tube?

Well, you could, technically, but it's not the

custom as to why, how it was done. Now why is

it that way?

Well, you could say that in the olden days you

didn't have tubes. Now you can have tubes, so

why not?

The answer is, I thought about it, is that it's

not as effective. The Brooklyn District Attorney

is investigating the death of an infant at Maimonides

Hospital. The two-week-old died last fall after

contracting herpes during the ritual which is

called Metzitzah B'peh. Health officials warn

the virus can be transmitted during direct oral

contact. Many defend the centuries-old practice.

You have more of a chance of getting hit by

a car than getting herpes. We still keep on

doing it and we will keep on doing it because

that's what our... that's what says in our religion

that that's what we should do.