Aposthia is a rare congenital condition in humans, in which the foreskin is missing. A congenital disorder is a medical condition that is present at birth. ... The Male Anatomy The foreskin or prepuce is a retractable double-layered fold of skin and mucous membrane that covers the glans penis and protects the urinary meatus when the penis is not erect. ...

Toward the end of the 19th Century, E. S. Talbot claimed in Medicine that aposthia among Jews was evidence for the now-discredited Lamarckian theory of evolution. It is likely that the cases he described were actually hypospadias, a condition in which the urinary meatus is on the underside of the penis. Neither condition has a particularly high incidence among Jews. Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lamarckism was a theory of biological evolution proposed by French biologist Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck, since disproven. ... A phylogenetic tree of all living things, based on rRNA gene data, showing the separation of the three domains, bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes, as described initially by Carl Woese. ... Hypospadias is a birth defect of the urethra in the male that involves an abnormally placed urethral meatus (opening). ... In anatomy, a meatus is a natural body opening or canal (pl. ...

Aposthia in Islam

According to legend, the prophet Mohammed was born without a foreskin[1]. However, Arabs had been practising circumcision long before this, and this legend is not the reason that Muslims circumcise. Muhammad (Arabic محمد, also transliterated Mohammad, Mohammed, and formerly Mahomet, following the Latin) is revered by Muslims as the final prophet of God. ... For other uses, see Arab (disambiguation). ... Circumcision is the removal of some or all of the foreskin (prepuce). ... A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم) (sometimes also spelled Moslem) is an adherent of Islam. ...

Aposthia in Judaism

The Midrash of Ki-Tzetze notes that Moses was born aposthic. Jewish Law requires males born without a foreskin or who lost their foreskin through means other than a formal circumcision ceremony (brit milah ברית מילה) to have a drop of blood (hatifas-dam, הטיפת דם) let from the penis at the point where the foreskin would have been (or was) attached. In Talmudic tractate Sabbath page 135A, there is a discussion of whether the importance of this letting of blood supercedes the Sabbath, on which only a child who was born the previous Sabbath can be circumcised. If a regular circumcision is delayed, there is no disagreement that this may not be performed on the Sabbath. However, in the case of aposthia, there are two schools of thought. Midrash (pl. ... Moses or Moshe (מֹשֶׁה, Standard Hebrew , Tiberian Hebrew , Arabic موسى , Ethiopic ሙሴ Musse, Latin ), son of Amram (Imran in Arabic) and his wife, Jochebed, a Levite. ... Halakha (הלכה in Hebrew or Halakhah, Halacha, Halachah) is the collective corpus of Jewish law, custom and tradition regulating all aspects of behavior. ... Circumcision is the removal of some or all of the foreskin (prepuce). ... Brit milah (Hebrew: ברית מילה; literally covenant [of] circumcision), also bris milah (Ashkenazi pronunciation) is a religious ceremony within Judaism that welcomes infant Jewish boys into a covenant between God and the Children of Israel through ritual circumcision performed by a mohel (circumcisor) in the presence of family and friends, followed by... The penis (plural penises or penes) is in addition to the scrotum one of the external male sexual organs. ... The Talmud (תלמוד) is a record of rabbinic discussions on Jewish law, Jewish ethics, customs, legends and stories, which Jewish tradition considers authoritative. ... This article concerns the Sabbath in Christianity. ...

R. Elazar Hakappar said that the school of Shamai and Hillel do not differ as to a child that is born without a foreskin. Both agree that the blood of the covenant must be drawn from the gland. The school of Shamai, however, contends that this may be done on the Sabbath, while the other holds that the Sabbath must not be desecrated on that account.

David Levy, former Israeli Foreign Minister and member of Knesset, was born aposthic. Arye Avneri's authorized 1983 biography of Levy notes this: Shammai (d. ... Hillel is a Hebrew name that has been held by many famous Jewish rabbis and thinkers. ... David H. Levy is an American astronomer. ... The Knesset (כנסת, Hebrew for assembly) is the Parliament of Israel. ...

"When David Levy was born on 1937, 21 December, in Rabat, the capital of Morocco, his mother Sima noticed at once that he was different from other baby boys. He had been born already circumcised, for the foreskin was entirely missing."

The rabbis in Rabat proclaimed that this foretold that Levy would grow up to be a "leader of Israel", even though the State was not founded until Levy was 11, in 1948. 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... December 21 is the 355th day of the year (356th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Maltese city on Gozo Island which can also be called Rabat, see Victoria, Malta. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Sources

• Dorland's Medical Dictionary
• E. S. Talbot, "Inheritance of circumcision effects", Medicine 1898.
• Shulchan Aruch, Code of Jewish Law, Yoreh Deah § 263 Law 4 (ש"ע י"ד ס' רס"ג הל' ד).