Q. I learned that attending a bris milah is a great mitzvah that enables one to have all his sins forgiven, and it is a eis ratzon to daven when the baby is crying. Therefore, whenever I hear that there will be a bris, I make an effort to attend even if I have no relationship to the family that is making the bris. However, some people have told me that I should not go to random bris milas when I have no relationship to the family. In the opinion of Rav Miller shlita, am I doing a mitzvah by going to a bris milah, davening when the baby is crying, and partaking of the seudas mitzvah, or should I avoid going unless I have some relationship to the baal simcha?
A. When the bris takes place in a private hall or home one has to be obviously invited. The same applies on consuming food prepared for others.
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that as important as attending a bris mila ceremony may be, it does not preempt or surpass spending time learning Torah with a chavrussa.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit’a
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