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Berith

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n.1.the Jewish rite of circumcision.
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Noun1.BerithBerith - the Jewish rite of circumcision performed on a male child on the eighth day of his life
Berit, Bris, Briss, Brith
circumcision - the act of circumcising performed on males eight days after birth as a Jewish and Muslim religious rite


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Starting in the early 1890s, as physicians were recommending and performing the operation more and more frequently as a neonata routine, they mounted an attack on the Jewish rite of Berith Milah or Bris as primitive, unsanitary, and potentially dangerous.
From ritual to science: the medical transformation of circumcision in ... by Gollaher, David L. / Journal of Social History
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