Whispered prayers. A baby begins to cry.The calm, practiced voice of a mohel is heard. Snip. Silence.

It’s the eighth day. The father hands the infant to the mohel. The baby won’t remember—by design. But the covenant won’t forget.

This is the ritual Abraham was known for. Not his faith. Not his silence. The cut.

In The Hidden Cut Season 2: Sacred Flesh, we trace the moment circumcision stopped being just an ancient practice and became a deal—a binding agreement written in blood. Was it a sacred covenant… or a contract with terms, costs, and a fine print still in dispute 3,000 years later?

From the renaming of Abram and Sarai, to the knife for Isaac’s throat, to the modern divide between covenant and contract, this episode cuts through tradition to ask: what was really signed that day—and who’s still paying the price?

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