Who gets the honors at the Brit Milah ceremony?
Traditionally, it is the parents of the baby who give out the honors at the bris. Both men and women are included in the ceremony. I prefer to have parents distribute select honors in a meaningful way, rather than pass the baby around just to include a lot of people. The honor of bringing the baby into the room at the beginning of the ceremony and/or taking him out at the end is given traditionally to a couple who do not yet have children or the grandmothers of the baby can be given this honor — both together or one at a time. If this is the first boy for the parents, the paternal grandfather of the baby holds for the bris and the maternal grandfather of the baby holds for the Naming portion of the ceremony. (If one grandfather has already served as a sandak previously, he can defer to the other grandfather. Similarly, one of the grandfathers may not want to hold the baby or may not be able to hold the baby for the bris, so the other grandfather can hold the baby.
