THE SCULPTOR
This week’s Parsha, Tazria, begins with the mitzvah of performing a Bris Milah on every Jew boy on the eighth day from his birth. I would like to discuss the purpose of Bris Milah and its implications.
The Ramban explains the reason for the Torah’s prohibition of mixing species such as breeding a horse with a donkey is because we are interfering with HaShem’s creation. If HaShem wanted there to be a mule, the product of this mixed breed, He would have created it. Evidently, He does not wish for there to be mules. The question we may ask on the Ramban is from the mitzvah of Bris Milah, in which we find that we are specifically instructed to alter the form of man in a way that he was not originally designed.