Bris Mila, Desire and Levinas

Bris mila, like all Jewish spirituality, signifies as a sanctification/humanization of vital energies, in this case of the male gendered body, on the model of Talmudic hermeneutics, exegesis, commentary, i.e., respecting the transcendence and integral unity of future and past, public and private, spirit and letter, holy and mundane.