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== History ==
Mintz started off as a doctor, but he became a ritual circumcisor when he circumcise a circumciseda son of wife's cousin in 1979 who lived in Beumont, Texas 90 miles east of Houston, Texas, and the only three mohels in Houston at the time were already booked.<ref name="HoustonChronicle"/>
Mintz began to keep count of his circumcisions shortly after beginning his mohel career.<ref name="HoustonChronicle"/> According to his own estimations, Mintz has circumcised 9,700 babies during the past 30 years<ref name="HoustonChronicle"/>, and he aims to make this number an even 10,000 by the end of 2012.<ref name="HoustonChronicle"/> His five grandsons are included in that number.<ref name="HoustonChronicle"/>