mohel

American  

[maw-hel, moh-heyl, moh-uhl, moi-, moh-heyl] / mɔˈhɛl, ˈmoʊ heɪl, ˈmoʊ əl, ˈmɔɪ-, ˈmoʊ heɪl /

noun

Hebrew.

plural

mohalim,

plural

mohels

1. the person who performs the circumcision in the Jewish rite of circumcising a male child on the eighth day after his birth.

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mohel British  

/ ˈmɔɛl, mɔɪl /

noun

1. Judaism a man qualified to conduct circumcisions

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Etymology

Origin of mohel

from Hebrew

Example Sentences

“Yearbook” then progresses to a slew of youthful misadventures, including one involving a mohel who paid a 14-year-old Rogen to write jokes for his circumcision ceremonies.

From Washington Post • May 6, 2021

King Edmonds said she is not Jewish, but decided to use a mohel, a person who performs circumcisions in the Jewish faith, to perform the procedure in her home.

From Fox News • Jan. 7, 2020

“You have a boy, you have a bris,” said Cantor Philip Sherman, an Orthodox mohel who estimates he’s performed more than 21,000 bris ceremonies.

From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2017

A female mohel who broke with custom to allow for a topical anesthetic had been found in Riverdale.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 28, 2013

The after-treatment of the circumcised infant is governed more or less by local habits and the individual intelligence of the mohel and his experience.

From History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by Remondino, Peter Charles