berit milah

English

Noun

berit milah

  1. Alternative spelling of brit milah.
    • 1987, Joseph Guttmann, The Jewish Life Cycle, page 4
      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)
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