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Berit milah (Topical Term)

Number of records used in: 2

Preferred form: Berit milah

Used for/see from:

Berit mila
Berith
Berith milah
Bris
Briss
Brit periah
Brith
Periah

See also:

Broader heading: Circumcision Religious aspects Judaism
Broader heading: Judaism Customs and practices

Notes

Work cat.: Cohen, E.J. Guide to ritual circumcision, 1984.

Web. 3 (Berith, brith, briss, bris; Berith milah)

Britannica 14 (Berit mila (Jewish rite))

Encyc. Judaica, 1971 (Circumcision; Hebrew: Berit milah)

2005380556: Sefer mal ṿe-lo paraʻ, 2002: t.p. (milah u-feriʻah be-vat aḥat)

Circumcision reference library WWW site, http://www.cirp.org/pages/cultural/kimmel1/, May 9, 2006: Tikkun, May/June 2001, The kindest un-cut (brit periah; originally, the ritual of brit milah was the excision of a small part of the foreskin; brit periah is the more extensive circumcision which removed the entire foreskin and was adopted by the rabbis to make it impossible to pass as gentile; adopted by modern medicine when it prescribed routine neonatal circumcision)

Circumcision reference library WWW site, http://www.cirp.org/pages/cultural/kimmel1/, May 9, 2006 Many blessings, Spring 2000, Circumcision, then and now (periah; more radical form of circumcision which goes beyond the biblical commandment and was added to the ritual at about 140 AD)