Brith

Examples

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• Join B'Nai Brith, why don't you?

  Fiction book (1998)

• David, this sucking of blood is present at all brith miloth; the only question is whether it is 'metzitzah b'peh' (i.e., by mouth) or by a tube.

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• You see, I grew up in a Bnai Brith intensive synagogue.

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• Last Thursday night, a symposium co-sponsored by B'nai Brith World Center, the Menachem Begin Center, and the Ecumenical Theological Research Fraternity in Jerusalem, was held on "The Present and Future of Christians in the Middle East."

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• The brith is an important tradition in Jewish culture, usually held on the eighth day after a baby boy is born.

• During the brith, close family members gather to celebrate the newborn's circumcision and welcome him into the community.

• At the brith, the rabbi performs the circumcision ceremony, which has significant religious meaning for the family.

Synonyms

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bris

vsBrith

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A Jewish religious ceremony to circumcise a baby boy, usually on the eighth day after birth

is the same ceremony but uses the more common spelling form

B

briss

vsBrith

1 9.9

A Jewish ceremony where a baby boy is circumcised on the eighth day after birth

is the same ceremony but uses the more common spelling form

B

berit

vsBrith

9.9

A Jewish religious ceremony where a baby boy is circumcised, usually on the eighth day

is the same ceremony but uses the more common spelling form

B

Berith

vsBrith

9.9

A Jewish ceremony to circumcise a baby boy on his eighth day

is the same ceremony but uses the more common spelling form

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Etymology