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What is the appropriate way to invite someone to a Brit?

by Rabbi Naftali Silberberg

It is customary not to formally invite people to participate in the Brit. Instead we merely announce that the Brit will take place at such a time in such a place. This is done (so if someone can't accept the invitation, it should) not to seem disrespectful to Elijah the Prophet as Elijah participates in every Brit.

The Rama writes¹ that since one who is invited to a brit and does not participate is "excommunicated from Heaven," we should refrain from inviting people to a brit in order to spare them the possibility of suffering this disgrace.

Footnotes

• 1. Code of Jewish Law, Yoreh Deah, 265:12, based on Talmud, Tractate Pesachim 113b.

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