bris

Definitions

1. Ritual male circumcision.
   Judaism
2. Brisbane, Australia.
   colloquial

Equivalents

Examples

“The night before the bris, he invited nine of his little buddies to come⟳ and say⟳ kerias shema around the baby's bassinet. Mommy and Daddy, who flew in for the bris, were so touched, they kept dabbing their eyes and coughing.”

“Although indigenous visual documentation of the bris was, until the advent of video, limited and often oblique, the ceremony is a longstanding fixture of Christian art.”

“However, if the baby is born on a Wednesday night, then the bris would occur⟳ on the following Thursday morning because Jewish days begin⟳ at sundown, and the bris is tradionally performed during the day. (Note⟳ that the Talmud (see⟳ Chapter 3) states if the baby's health is in question⟳, then the bris must be postponed.)”

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