berit milah

短语

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Alternative spelling of brit milah.

    Originally in biblical times berit milah may simply have consisted of cutting the Corlah (foreskin) with a flint knife (Exodus 4:25 and Joshua 5:2). The rabbis of the talmudic period perhaps added peri`ah (the tearing of the genital mucous membrane and laying bare the glans)