Bris vs Brit - What's the difference?
bris | brit |
(label) Ritual male circumcision.
* 1974 , Phillip E. Goble, Everything You Need to Grow a Messianic Synagogue ,
* 1993 , Miriam Rose, Miriam Zakon, The Baker Family Circus'', ''Baker's Dozen (Omnibus), Volume 4,
* 2009 , Jeffrey Shandler, Jews, God, and Videotape: Religion and Media in America ,
* 2013 , Ted Falcon, David Blatner, Judaism For Dummies , 2nd Edition,
As nouns the difference between bris and brit
is that bris is (label) ritual male circumcision while brit is one of the young of herrings, sprats etc or brit can be brit milah or brit can be scream, yell.As a verb brit is
to break in pieces; divide.bris
English
(wikipedia bris)Noun
page 22,
- This bath symbolizes both a spiritual mikveh (Jewish purification bath) and a spiritual bris (circumcision which makes one a Jew).
page 129,
- 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.
page 155,
- 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.
page 109,
- 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.)