Announced vs invited!

[ChaimMoskowitz]

Someone care to explain?

You don't invite to a bris, so you found a workaround to invite to a DO....
Mazel Tov!

Looks to me like he "announced", not "invited".  Someone will explain the difference to CM.

[ShlockDoc]

It's a loophole.  You aren't supposed to invite people to a bris since rejecting an invitation is considered bad.  So people "announce" the bris so if you can't go, it's not considered rejecting the invitation...

[ChaimMoskowitz]

I hope a wedding is not the same thing. 

[Red]

I hope a wedding is not the same thing. 

Nope, specific to a bris.

[ShlockDoc]

I hope a wedding is not the same thing. 

I'm not sure why rejecting one invite is a greater sin than another.  Maybe one of the more learned people here can explain...

[Freddie]

Eliyahu haNavi is at the bris. That's what's considered so egregious about rejecting the invitation.

[ShlockDoc]

Eliyahu haNavi is at the bris. That's what's considered so egregious about rejecting the invitation.

Thanks Freddie. Doesn't he also "come" to the Seder? Are there the same rules around that?

Also, I find the whole Eliyahu story fascinating but I'm not so educated on it. What is the source for the belief that he is in attendance at a Bris?   Thanks!

[ChaimMoskowitz]

Eliyahu haNavi is at the bris.

Now it makes perfect sense. 
Eliyahu haNavi?

[ShlockDoc]

Now it makes perfect sense. 
Eliyahu haNavi?

Elijah the Prophet.

[Freddie]

To the door by "shfoch chamas'cha." Never heard an inyan of not inviting to a seder though... although on a related note... it is problematic to invite a nachri to any yom tov meal because of the issue of cooking beyond what is necessary for a Jew's yom tov celebration. On Shabbos, however, when you cannot cook anyway, there is no such problem.

[TimT]

Eliyahu haNavi?

Wait till Friday

[ChaimMoskowitz]

Wait till Friday

Not even going there on Friday.

[Freddie]

Great. Wanna come to my house for Shabbos?

[MosheD]

To the door by "shfoch chamas'cha." Never heard an inyan of not inviting to a seder though... although on a related note... it is problematic to invite a nachri to any yom tov meal because of the issue of cooking beyond what is necessary for a Jew's yom tov celebration. On Shabbos, however, when you cannot cook anyway, there is no such problem.

Distant relation Imho... But thanks for the weekly halacha

[yesitsme]

R' Chaim will this helps you?

[Centro]

It's a loophole.  You aren't supposed to invite people to a bris since rejecting an invitation is considered bad.  So people "announce" the bris so if you can't go, it's not considered rejecting the invitation...

IINM it only applies to the bris sudah, not the bris itself.

[username]

Actually may apply to a wedfing as well, but there its the parents who are inviting. Vd"l.

[doodle]

Thanks Freddie. Doesn't he also "come" to the Seder? Are there the same rules around that?

Also, I find the whole Eliyahu story fascinating but I'm not so educated on it. What is the source for the belief that he is in attendance at a Bris?   Thanks!

Chazal. specifically Pirkay Drby Eliezer

[gozalim]

IINM, Eliyahu was penalized to attend every Bris (for saying בריתך עזבו). if he is forced to attend and a mortal has the liberty to ignore an invite...

that's the idea

[Freddie]

I see what you did there.