The brit milah (Hebrew: בְּרִית מִילָה‎, Modern Israeli: [bʁit miˈla], Ashkenazi: [bʁis ˈmilə]; "covenant of circumcision") or bris (Yiddish: ברית‎, Yiddish:...

מוֹהֲלָא‎ mohala, "circumciser") is a Jewish man trained in the practice of brit milah, the "covenant of male circumcision". The equivalent for a woman circumciser...

practiced today. At birkat hamazon concluding the celebratory meal of a brit milah (ritual circumcision), in the Eastern Ashkenazic rite, additional introductory...

Western world is often that the name from birth (or perhaps from baptism or brit milah) will persist to adulthood in the normal course of affairs—either throughout...

the Brit bein HaBetarim, the "Covenant between the parts" in Hebrew (also translated as the "Covenant of the pieces"), and is the basis for brit milah (covenant...

hissing, inversion or pressure during restraint. The Jewish practice of brit milah, or circumcision of infant males, has been attacked in both ancient and...

mitzvah (commandment), such as a bar mitzvah, bat mitzvah, a wedding, a brit milah (ritual circumcision), or a siyum (completing a tractate of Talmud or...

invoked in other Jewish customs, among them the Passover Seder and the brit milah (ritual circumcision). He appears in numerous stories and references in...

unoccupied chair that is reserved during the Jewish ceremony of circumcision Brit milah, which according to tradition, is used by the prophet Elijah who participates...

Jewish brit milah (circumcision) ceremony, traditionally either by holding the baby boy on the knees or thighs while the mohel performs the brit milah, or...

8th day of the 4th month of the Chinese calendar. The religious rite of brit milah (commonly known as circumcision) is held on a baby boy's eighth day of...

First Maccabees also relates that the Seleucids forbade the practice of brit milah (Jewish circumcision), and punished those who performed it, as well as...

holds that males should be circumcised eight days after birth during a Brit milah ceremony, at which they are also given their name. The circumcision of...

choose to have a bar or bat mitzvah if they do not have them as children. Brit milah Confirmation Bar and bat meaning 'son of' and 'daughter of' respectively;...

proselytes and in turn their descendants and is signified through the brit milah (rite of circumcision). In the New Testament, the descent and promise...

Canada Brit milah, the circumcision of a Jewish baby boy on the eighth day of life Brit (character), an Image Comics superhero and series Brit Stevenson...

affinity is mainly to mohels and rabbis of Orthodox Judaism (for their brit milah, bar mitzvah, and weddings), and in 2015 they comprised roughly one-third...

such as at the inauguration of a Torah scroll (hachnasat sefer Torah), brit milah (circumcision), communal celebrations, weddings, bar mitzvah celebrations...

dessert is prepared by the Roman Jewish community on the occasion of a Brit milah (ceremony of circumcision). The name pizza is here to be understood not...

castration. His successor, Antoninus Pius, altered the edict to permit Brit Milah. During this period in history, Jewish circumcision called for the removal...

prayer, and it is also sung in some communities at the festive meal of the Brit Milah (circumcision ceremony). The piyyut gained widespread popularity and has...

meeting of the Beit Din and usually a Brit Milah and a Tevilah, though the extent to which the practice of Brit Milah is observed varies from country to...

and their individual circumstances. For example, a male who has had a brit milah, who has a general understanding of Judaism, but who has been raised in...

din) and, for men, circumcision (brit milah) or a symbolic circumcision for those already circumcised (hatafat dam brit).[citation needed] The requirements...

the chuppah is often painted or embroidered onto wimpels after a boy’s Brit Milah ceremony. Here, the chuppah is a reference to a wish for the boy’s life...

times.[citation needed] In the Jewish tradition, baby boys are named at a brit milah on the eighth day after their birth. Girls are named within the first...

- are also sometimes eaten at other occasions, such as a wedding or a Brit milah, but without ritual. It is customary to begin the evening and day Sabbath...

maid Hagar and Hagar's son Ishmael, and the covenant of circumcision (brit milah). The parashah is made up of 6,336 Hebrew letters, 1,686 Hebrew words...

performed by a mohel on the eighth day of life in a ceremony called a brit milah (or bris milah, colloquially simply bris), which means "Covenant of circumcision"...

privately owned al-Mahwar network: "It's prohibited, prohibited, prohibited." Brit milah Circumcision controversies History of male circumcision Portal:  Islam...