However, if the baby is born on Sunday night after sunset, the Brit is on the following Monday.The brit takes place on the eighth day following birth even if that day is Shabbat or a holiday.

Rabbi Tendler recommends the use of an analgesic cream.The actual circumcision will be private, and other elements of the ceremony (e.g., the celebratory meal) may be modified to accommodate the desires of the one being circumcised.Most prominent acharonim rule that the mitzvah of brit milah lies in the pain it causes, and anesthetic, sedation, or ointment should generally not be used.Joshua 5:2-9, explains, "all the people that came out" of Egypt were circumcised, but those "born in the wilderness" were not.Therefore, Joshua, before the celebration of the Passover, had them circumcised at Gilgal specifically before they entered Canaan.