Editing Brit milah (section)

=== Time and place ===
[[File:Fauteuil de circoncision ("Fauteuil d'Elie").jpg|thumb|''Chair of Elijah'' used during the ''brit milah'' ceremony, [[Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme]]]]
It is customary for the ''brit'' to be held in a synagogue, but it can also be held at home or any other suitable location. The ''brit'' is performed on the eighth day from the baby's birth, taking into consideration that according to the Jewish calendar, the day begins at the sunset of the day before. If the baby is born on Sunday before sunset, the ''brit'' will be held the following Sunday. However, if the baby is born on Sunday night after sunset, the ''brit'' is on the following Monday. The ''brit'' takes place on the eighth day following birth even if that day is Shabbat or a holiday; however, if the baby is born on Friday night between sunset and nightfall, the ''briti'' is delayed until the following Sunday.<ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 266:8.</ref> Furthermore, the brit is performed on the Sabbath only if it is a natural birth; if the birth is a [[Caesarean section]], the ''brit'' is delayed until the Sunday.<ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 266:10.</ref> A brit is traditionally performed in the morning, but it may be performed any time during daylight hours.<ref>{{Cite web
 |url         = http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/144464/jewish/The-Proper-Time-and-Place.htm
 |title       = The Circumcision Procedure and Blessings – Performing the Bris Milah – The Handbook to Circumcision
 |publisher   = [[Chabad.org]]
 |access-date  = 2012-04-25
 |url-status     = live
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20120116103539/http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/144464/jewish/The-Proper-Time-and-Place.htm
 |archive-date = 2012-01-16
}}</ref>

==== Postponement for health reasons ====
[[File:Circumcision set.jpg|thumb|right|Family circumcision set and trunk, {{circa}} eighteenth century. Wooden box covered in cow hide with silver implements: silver trays, clip, pointer, silver flask, spice vessel.]]
The Talmud explicitly instructs that a boy must not be circumcised if he had two brothers who died due to complications arising from their circumcisions,<ref name="JewEncMor">{{Jewish Encyclopedia|article=Morbidity|url=http://jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=763&letter=M}}</ref> and [[Maimonides]] says that this excluded paternal half-brothers. This may be due to a concern about [[hemophilia]].<ref name="JewEncMor" />

An Israeli study found a high rate of [[urinary tract infection]]s if the bandage is left on too long.<ref>{{Cite web
 |first       = Ofri
 |last        = Ilani
 |title       = Traditional circumcision raises risk of infection, study shows
 |url         = http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1043807.html
 |publisher   = [[Haaretz]]
 |date        = 2008-05-12
 |access-date  = 15 August 2009
 |url-status     = live
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20090820233703/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1043807.html
 |archive-date = 20 August 2009
}}</ref>

If the child is born [[premature baby|prematurely]] or has other serious medical problems, the ''brit milah'' will be postponed until the doctors and ''mohel'' deem the child strong enough for his foreskin to be surgically removed.

==== Adult circumcision ====
In recent years, the circumcision of adult Jews who were not circumcised as infants has become more common than previously thought.<ref>{{Cite web
  | first      = Susan
  | last       = Kreimer
  | title      = In New Trend, Adult Émigrés Seek Ritual Circumcision
  | url        = http://forward.com/articles/4382/in-new-trend-adult-emigrcas-seek-ritual-circumcis/
  | publisher  = [[The Jewish Daily Forward]]
  | date       = 2004-10-22
  | access-date = 24 August 2015
}}</ref> In such cases, the ''brit milah'' will be done at the earliest date that can be arranged. The actual circumcision will be private, and other elements of the ceremony (e.g., the celebratory meal) may be modified to accommodate the desires of the one being circumcised.

==== Circumcision for the dead ====
According to Halacha, a baby who dies before they had time to circumcise him must be circumcised before burial. Several reasons were given for this commandment.<ref>{{Cite web
  | first      = Rami 
  | last       = Reiner
  | title      = A baby boy who dies before reaching eight [days] is circumcised with a flint or reed at his grave" (Shulḥan 'Arukh, Yoreh De'ah 263:5): From Women's Custom to Rabbinic Law
  | url        = https://www.academia.edu/93865013
  | publisher  = [[Journal of the Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought]]
  | date       = 2022
  | access-date = 3 January 2023 
}}</ref> Some have written that there is no need for this circumcision.