Re: For the first time ever: A Bris in South Korea

On Oct 3, 5:48 am, DoD <danskisan...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This Rosh Hashana for the first time ever a 'Bris" (circumcision
ceremony) was performed on a baby boy in Seoul, South Korea. The baby
is the son of the Chabad emissary in Seoul, Rabbi Asher Litzman.

Numerous guests from Israel and abroad spent Rosh Hashana in Seoul to
witness this special occasion including Rabbi Litzman's father-in-law,
Rabbi Aaron Dov Halpern, the editor of the popular Israeli Magazine
"Kfar Chabad."
The rest............http://shturem.org/index.php?section=news&id=30058

David

I've lived in Korea and I was pleasantly surprised to see Korean books
on "Talmud" in major bookstores.
One book I bought is called "T'almudŭ Iyagi" with paraphrases of
midrashic literature and "Jewish wit" and what have you.
The vague Korean impression of "the Jews" is that they know a thing or
two about fruitful education, which seems to be why there are quite a
few Jewish Nobel Prize winners. In a country where education is
everything (sort of like the way it is in Japan) that's relevant.
There aren't many Jews in Korea but had Judaism still had the practice
of striving for the conversion of Gentiles, Korea would have been
Jewish at least 30% by now. It fits right in there in the society.
Koreans are even called "the Israelis of East Asia", although that
might be for touristic reasons. :-)
In any case, that would have meant a growth of the Jewish world
population of 15 million! :-) Now the society suffers, imho, from the
craziest "Christian" sects, including of course the pseudo-Christian
Moon movement. Man, Judaism's really dropping the ball there. Or
perhaps it's Lubavitch time. Well, I could help out with the
language. ;-)
Great place by the way, Seoul.
hrmn
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