In what witnesses are calling an open miracle, a bris milah was performed last night just moments before sunset under extraordinary circumstances after a sudden and drastic drop in the infant’s hemoglobin levels made the bris halachically permissible. The event unfolded exactly as foretold earlier in the day by the baby’s great-grandfather, the renowned posek, Rav Moshe Sternbuch.
The father, who performed the bris himself, also served as the sandek, reciting all the brachos and filling all the kibbudim traditionally distributed among close family. The rushed ceremony took place in the final minutes before sunset, with no time to gather relatives, due to the urgent need to fulfill the mitzvah of bris milah bizmanah, on the eighth day.
Earlier that morning, bloodwork showed the baby had an unusually high hemoglobin level of 14.5, rendering a bris halachically prohibited. But when Rav Sternbuch heard the test results, he calmly told the family, “You’ll see—the bris will be today.” His words stunned those around him, as such a sharp drop in hemoglobin within hours seemed medically unlikely.
Yet, toward evening, in what many are calling a revealed mofes, a follow-up test showed that the baby’s hemoglobin had plummeted dramatically—just minutes before shkiah. The father acted immediately, performing the bris in the narrow window of halachic opportunity.
After the bris, the father brought his newborn son to Rav Sternbuch’s home, where the posek bentched the child at his table. Also present at the post-bris seudah was the baby’s other grandfather, Rav Chaim Uri Freund, member of the Badatz of the Eidah HaChareidis.
{Matzav.com Israel}