Reply To: How would you respond to Savage on Metzitzah

GAW: THe Sdei Chemed, I believe, is the only one who holds it’s actually M’akev. Then again, Rav Schachter points out that he was probably exaggerating the Chomer of it in order to fight the reform (as the Sdei Chemed nearby quotes the T’shuvah of the Chassam Sofer that one may exaggerate the importance of Mitzvos or Minhag that the Haskalah was trying to abolish).