{"id":285,"date":"2022-01-18T23:47:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T22:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brit-milah.com\/en\/?page_id=285"},"modified":"2022-02-11T15:09:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T14:09:17","slug":"the-gomel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brit-milah.com\/en\/the-gomel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gomel (The Mother says)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It is customary to recite the &#8220;Gomel&#8221; while recovering from illness or after escaping a great danger (here, <strong>public blessing of the Mother to thank God after childbirth<\/strong>). An opportune moment for the mother to recite this <em>berakha<\/em> is either:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After the milah &#8211; To ensure that this <em>berakha<\/em> will not be forgotten, the <em>mohel<\/em> when he has finished the Brit-milah can take the initiative to ask the mother to recite the gomel ;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">During the se&#8217;uda immediately after circumcision &#8211; the mother then recites the gomel, before the <em>birkat hamazone<\/em> for example;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At the synagogue some time later.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">(c) Eliyahu Bakish.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u00a0 It is customary to recite the &#8220;Gomel&#8221; while recovering from illness or after escaping a great danger (here,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-285","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-milah.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-milah.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-milah.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-milah.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-milah.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brit-milah.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/brit-milah.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/285\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-milah.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}