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- Who to circumcise:[1]
Androgenus:[2] An Androgenus is to be circumcised [without a blessing].
Two foreskins or two Gidim:[3] A child born with two foreskins[4] or two complete sets of Gidim is to be circumcised.
C-section/Caesarean:[5] A child who was born Caesarean is to be circumcised.
Ben Mumar:[6] A child born from a father who is an apostate Jew[7] is to be circumcised.
Mother Jewish, father not:[8] A child born from a gentile father is to be circumcised.
Father Jewish, mother not:[9] A child whose mother is not Jewish is not to be circumcised, just as we rule regarding a non-Jewish child, as explained in Halacha 9.
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[1] See Michaber Y.D. 262:3; Pesakim Uteshuvos 262:14; See Encyclopedia Talmudit Vol. 46 Erech Mila p. 425-427 footnotes 251-262
[2] Admur 331:6; Michaber Y.D. 262:3; 266:10
An Androgenus is a person born with the both the male and female genitals. See Pesakim Uteshuvos 262:14 footnotes 108-111
[3] Admur 331:6; Michaber Y.D. 266:10; Shabbos 135; See Michaber Y.D. 262:3; Pesakim Uteshuvos 262:14 footnotes 112-113
[4] Two foreskins, one over the other.
[5] Admur 331:6; Michaber O.C. 331:5; Y.D. 262:3; 266:10; Shabbos 135; Shevach Habris 8:3; See Os Chaim Veshalom 266:8
[6] Michaber Yoreh Deah 266:12
[7] Known as a Mumar.
[8] See Pischeiy Teshuvah Yoreh Deah 266:14
[9] Michaber Yoreh Deah 266:13