Related%20passage for Shabbat 19:3

מַרְחִיצִין אֶת הַקָּטָן, בֵּין לִפְנֵי הַמִּילָה וּבֵין לְאַחַר הַמִּילָה, וּמְזַלְּפִין עָלָיו בַּיָּד, אֲבָל לֹא בִכְלִי. רַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר בֶּן עֲזַרְיָה אוֹמֵר, מַרְחִיצִין אֶת הַקָּטָן בַּיּוֹם הַשְּׁלִישִׁי שֶׁחָל לִהְיוֹת בְּשַׁבָּת, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (בראשית לד) וַיְהִי בַיּוֹם הַשְּׁלִישִׁי בִּהְיוֹתָם כֹּאֲבִים. סָפֵק וְאַנְדְּרוֹגִינוֹס אֵין מְחַלְּלִין עָלָיו אֶת הַשַּׁבָּת, וְרַבִּי יְהוּדָה מַתִּיר בְּאַנְדְּרוֹגִינוֹס:

The child is washed both before and after milah [This washing is not done in the usual manner, for what follows, viz.: "He is sprinkled upon by hand but not with a vessel" explains what precedes, i.e., how he is washed. But with a vessel, even sprinkling is forbidden, and, it goes without saying, washing in the usual manner.], and he is sprinkled upon by hand, but not with a vessel. R. Eliezer b. Azaryah says: The child is washed on the third day (after circumcision) if it falls out on a Sabbath, it being written (Genesis 34:25): "And it was on the third day, when they were in pain (from circumcision)." [He differs with the first tanna and holds that the child is washed in the usual manner, both before and after milah, and also on the third day after milah, whether with water heated before Shabbath or with water heated on Shabbath itself, the child being in danger. The halachah is in accordance wit R. Eliezer b. Azaryah.] Shabbath is not desecrated for a doubtful case or for a hermaphrodite. [("a doubtful case":) a doubt as to whether he is an eight month or a nine month birth. For if he is an eight month birth, he is like a stone (i.e., unable to survive), and his milah does not override Shabbath.] R. Yehudah permits it with a hermaphrodite, it being written (Genesis 17:10): "Circumcise unto yourselves every male," including a hermaphrodite. And the first tanna says: It is written (Leviticus 12:3): "the flesh of his foreskin" — one who is all foreskin, to exclude one (i.e., a hermaphrodite) who is half-female. The halachah is not in accordance with the first tanna.]

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