Why Is a Brit Milah Performed on the Eighth Day?
Rabbi Chay Amar
Explore the Rambam’s laws of brit milah, from the obligation to circumcise a Jewish baby on the eighth day to the laws concerning Shabbat, illness, delayed circumcision, and conversion. The lesson also reveals the deeper meaning of circumcision as a mitzvah that connects a Jew to Hashem beyond human understanding.