bris
noun
ˈbris 
variants or less commonly briss
: the Jewish rite of circumcision
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web One such family was that of Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel, who broke the law and held a bris eight days after his son’s birth. 
Caren Schnur Neile, Sun Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2022 The gravitational pull of tradition had already begun to decline—as Khan mentions, plenty of parents forgo the bris, for good reasons—but the pandemic opened a decisive rupture between past and future. Alex Kahn, The New Yorker, 27 July 2022 Naturally, the situation spirals out of control in the run-up to the baby’s bris. Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2022 The photographer assigned to shoot a bris, a ritual circumcision, hadn’t shown up, and the baby’s grandmother was panicking. New York Times, 31 Dec. 2021 For Mile End's Tietolman, the deli is always there for people, from the start of life at a bris to the end of life at a shiva. Noah Sheidlower And Radhika Marya, CNN, 7 Nov. 2021 Moral of the story: Never hire a drunk rabbi to perform a bris. Larry Fitzmaurice, Vulture, 1 Sep. 2021 In a bris, a baby is welcomed not just into one family but into a covenantal community. Aaron Regunberg, The New Republic, 13 Aug. 2021 Rabbi Yossi Friedman, executive director of Chabad of Alabama, said a bris is one of the oldest Jewish traditions. al, 8 May 2021 See More
Caren Schnur Neile, Sun Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2022 The gravitational pull of tradition had already begun to decline—as Khan mentions, plenty of parents forgo the bris, for good reasons—but the pandemic opened a decisive rupture between past and future. Alex Kahn, The New Yorker, 27 July 2022 Naturally, the situation spirals out of control in the run-up to the baby’s bris. Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2022 The photographer assigned to shoot a bris, a ritual circumcision, hadn’t shown up, and the baby’s grandmother was panicking. New York Times, 31 Dec. 2021 For Mile End's Tietolman, the deli is always there for people, from the start of life at a bris to the end of life at a shiva. Noah Sheidlower And Radhika Marya, CNN, 7 Nov. 2021 Moral of the story: Never hire a drunk rabbi to perform a bris. Larry Fitzmaurice, Vulture, 1 Sep. 2021 In a bris, a baby is welcomed not just into one family but into a covenantal community. Aaron Regunberg, The New Republic, 13 Aug. 2021 Rabbi Yossi Friedman, executive director of Chabad of Alabama, said a bris is one of the oldest Jewish traditions. al, 8 May 2021 See More Word History
Etymology
Yiddish bris, short for bris-mile, from Hebrew bĕrīth mīlāh, literally, covenant of circumcision
First Known Use
circa 1934, in the meaning defined above
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