Recent Examples on the WebIn fact, apart from the near-miss bris debacle, the potentially comic situations never go far enough.—Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024 Allison Redisch, a 37-year-old stay-at-home mom in Washington, D.C., had imagined welcoming family and friends from out of town for her son’s bris.—Washington Post, 3 June 2021 Then came the bris epiphany.—New York Times, 31 Dec. 2021 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 Video from Khan’s own bris ceremony, in 1988, shows a big party, complete with bagel spread—exactly the kind of gathering that was unthinkable during that first pandemic winter, pre-vaccine.—Alex Kahn, The New Yorker, 27 July 2022 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
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Word History
Etymology
Yiddish bris, short for bris-mile, from Hebrew bĕrīth mīlāh, literally, covenant of circumcision
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