A Royal Disease: Can A Hemophiliac be Circumcised?

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Derech HaTeva is a publication of the undergraduate students of Stern College for Women. Editors in Chief: Kate Rosenblatt, Rose Snyder, Helen Unger<br><br> Evidently the scholars of the Talmud, as described by Maimonides and Rabbi Joseph Karo, recognized that hemophilia is transmitted maternally, and that it causes exsanguinations, leading to the death of the circumcised child.

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