JC> -> Because it's much more painful if done when the patient's adult.
JC> -> I've been to circumcision ceremonies (Bris) and the baby barely
JC> -> seemed to notice.  Try that on an unanesthetized 21-year-old.
JC> 
JC> I have seen where the rabbi will give them wine.  The poor little kid 
JC> is
JC> drunk before he is cut.  
    "Asleep" might be a better word!
    Even if the boy swallowed the whole amount of wine he was given, do you 
think he would have reached a level of total insensitivity to pain so soon 
after?
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