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The first anniversary of that grim day was rounded off with a second bris in Har Gilo for fellow Efrat residents.—Rabbi Hayim Leiter, Sun Sentinel, 17 Oct. 2024 In fact, apart from the near-miss bris debacle, the potentially comic situations never go far enough.—Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024 Stoppard, who was raised knowing little about Judaism, turned to friends while writing the play, seeking advice for a scene involving a bris and discussing Seders with Fran Lebowitz.—Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 7 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 See All Example Sentences for bris
Word History
Etymology
Yiddish bris, short for bris-mile, from Hebrew bĕrīth mīlāh, literally, covenant of circumcision
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