The city’s $2,000 fine to stop unsafe circumcisions is a mere cost-of-doing-business slap that will do nothing to deter the ­lucrative but potentially disease-spreading ritual, mohels and community members railed Thursday to The Post.

Mohels can rake in up to $1,500 per bris — the Jewish circumcision ritual — and often perform as many as 10 a week — turning the monetary penalty into chump change, experts said.

“A $2,000 fine is like nothing,” fumed Dr. Jeffrey Mazlin, an ­OB-GYN and part-time mohel. “Some of these Orthodox mohelim are doing 10 in a week — they’re full-time mohels — so $2,000 is a slap on the wrist. They could be making loads of money.

“Orthodox mohelim are rabbis, and then they say, ‘Donate to the synagogue,’ and they get a kickback,” Mazlin added.

Mohel Lucy Eisenstein Waldman also scoffed that the fine wasn’t enough.

“It’s not a lot at all, given the damage that occurs,” she said. “It’s safer for these babies if this practice is ended.”

An Orthodox-community advocate called the punishment threatened by Mayor de Blasio a “joke” considering the potential consequences.

“It’s a ridiculously low penalty to pay for a child living a life of hell with herpes,” the advocate said. “Given what mohels make today, $2,000 would not be a ­deterrent for any mohel to continue in his practice.”

The city claims its hands are tied when it comes to publicly outing two mohels believed to be responsible for six cases of neonatal herpes as a result of metzitzah b’peh — a circumcision ritual in which mohels suck the blood from the incision on the baby’s penis.

Instead, in a March 17 letter, the city Health Department ordered the offending mohels to stop performing the high-risk ritual or face the $2,000 fine.

Parents are now also being urged to ask their mohels if they’re infected with herpes.

But Mazlin and others think the city is doing the public harm by keeping the mohels’ names secret.

“These people still feel that it is important to do [metzitzah b’peh] and parents should know about these people so they have a choice to use them or not,” he said.

Cantor Philip Sherman said he doesn’t believe the city’s new circumcision policy is actually enforceable.

“Many ultra-religious individuals are very wary of civil authorities and they won’t really follow what civil authorities are dictating,” said Sherman, a mohel for 40 years who has performed close to 22,000 circumcisions.

Mohel wannabes undergo a year of training before they’re deemed qualified to perform circumcisions — and don’t need to be officially certified, like medical doctors, to start working.

“Theoretically, someone can hang out a shingle and say, ‘OK. I’m a mohel.’ Anyone who ­decides to be a mohel can be a mohel,” said Sherman.

But he said that first and foremost, a prospective mohel must be religiously observant and uphold Jewish law to the fullest.

Sherman said there are other methods to performing metzitzah b’peh, including using a tube or sterile gauze, that don’t involve direct oral contact with the baby.

“They don’t have to stop doing brises, they just have to modify what they’re doing,” Sherman said. “It’s not a medical procedure. It’s a profoundly significant and beautiful Jewish life- cycle event.”