# Jewish circumcision question (need help fast – sundown is approaching!)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewish-circumcision-question-need-help-fast-sundown-is-approaching/510646>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 18, 2009, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewish-circumcision-question-need-help-fast-sundown-is-approaching/510646 "2009-09-18T21:59:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewish-circumcision-question-need-help-fast-sundown-is-approaching/510646/21 "2009-09-23T00:54:19Z")

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Mazel Tov, Rhythmdvl.

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**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewish-circumcision-question-need-help-fast-sundown-is-approaching/510646/22 "2009-09-23T00:58:28Z")

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> [@jabiru](#):
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> Are non-Jewish people allowed to wish a Jewish person ‘Mazel tov’? Or is it considered rude, pushy or presumptuous?

It’s considered thoughtful and sweet.

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**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewish-circumcision-question-need-help-fast-sundown-is-approaching/510646/23 "2009-09-23T00:59:15Z")

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> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#):
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> It’s considered thoughtful and sweet.

Good to know. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewish-circumcision-question-need-help-fast-sundown-is-approaching/510646/24 "2009-09-23T04:57:52Z")

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> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#):
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> It’s considered thoughtful and sweet.

Well, then, this Episcopalian very happily says, _Mazel tov!_

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**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewish-circumcision-question-need-help-fast-sundown-is-approaching/510646/25 "2009-09-23T05:44:31Z")

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> [@NAF1138](#):
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> I was raised in a reform temple and am bar mitzvah and circumsized, the whole 9 yards…

They cut off _nine yards_! Wow, were you a big boy! Me, I had a little shmekele of a peckele. Hey I was just a baby!

🙂

And oh, Mazel Tov

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