Responsa sur Shabbat 19:7
Melamed Leho'il Part II
However, who could tell us that [this youth] definitely knew he wasn't circumcised? Does every sixteen-year-old child know the nature of circumcision and the visual difference? Perhaps he was modest and never looked at it his entire life. Think about it [further], due to our many sins there are areas in Germany where the mohelim are severe sinners and do not perform priah [lit. revealing; peeling off thee pithelium]! Many children are therefore as though they were not circumcised [at all], for we learn, "One who circumcised without priah is as if he had not circumcised." (Mishnah Shabbat 19:6)However, none of them know that they are not circumcised; certainly, they are like" children held captive among non-Jews". Further, even if they were to learn afterward that priah is necessary, they wouldn't know that priah had not been performed on them. Moreover: Even if you would say that he knew that he wasn't circumcised and despite that he didn't circumcise himself, one could argue that he did so because he didn't want to pain himself, and not because he kicked[i.e. rejected] the commandment of circumcision. If so, all would agree that he was only a rebel concerning one matter, due to his desires. It seems to me that even in Hungary the custom is not to distance the grave of such a rebel from other graves - in Germany, the custom is certainly not so - and so there is no legal reason to change the youth's burial from the burial of other Jewish sinners.
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