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/bɹɪs/ · noun
(Judaism) Ritual male circumcision; the ceremony in which this is performed..
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.)
Use bris when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bris means (Judaism) Ritual male circumcision; the ceremony in which this is performed..
Common synonyms include bris milah, brit milah, brith, berith.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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