berit milah

A form of brit milah — The Jewish ceremony of circumcision normally performed on the eighth day of life.

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Meanings

noun
  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of brit milah.

    Originally in biblical times berit milah may simply have consisted of cutting the Corlah (foreskin) with a flint knife (Exodus 4:25 and Joshua 5:2). The rabbis of the talmudic period perhaps added peri`ah (the tearing of the genital mucous membrane and laying bare the glans)

    1987, Joseph Guttmann, The Jewish Life Cycle, page 4
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