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You're Never Too Young for Tradition  This article originally
appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle and is reprinted with
permission. Visit  Bubbe (grandmother) Susan cradles sleeping
Ryan, not yet two weeks old, in her arms and will not give him
up to other relatives. The little guy is utterly and completely
at peace, his mouth slack and one arm draped casually over his
forehead. He can trust bubbe.  "Oh, you sweet, sweet thing,"
coos Susan Sockol, the doting bubbe who strokes wisps of Ryan
Michael Sobil's brown hair. "You have no idea what's going to
happen, do you?"  No, he certainly does not. Ryan is blissfully
unaware that this is the morning of his bris--the 3,000-year-old
circumcision ritual that is a Jewish male's first rite of
passage, followed by his bar mitzvah at puberty and later his
wedding ceremony--and bubbe has been entrusted by parents Marc
Sobil and Ilona Sockol to make sure he stays content.  All
around Ryan, though, activity bu