12 Facts About Brit milah

Brit milah is a Jewish religious male circumcision ceremony.

The notion of Brit milah being linked to a biblical covenant is generally believed to have originated in the 6th century BCE as a product of the Babylonian captivity; the practice likely lacked this significance among Jews before the period.

Today, brit milah is performed by a mohel on the eighth day after the infant's birth and is followed by a celebratory meal known as seudat mitzvah.

Brit milah that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised; and My covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

In such cases, the brit milah will be done at the earliest date that can be arranged.

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Brit milah tells the story that a student of Moses Sofer, Lazar Horowitz, Chief Rabbi of Vienna at the time and author of the responsa Yad Elazer, needed the ruling because of a governmental attempt to ban circumcision completely if it included metztitzah b'peh.

Brit milah therefore asked Sofer to give him permission to do brit milah without metzitzah b'peh.

Brit milah is more than circumcision; it is a sacred ritual in Judaism, as distinguished from its non-ritual requirement in Islam.

Brit milah must be informed of his right to renounce his conversion if he wishes.

Brit milah thought that circumcision should be done as early as possible as it would not be as likely to be done by someone's own free will.

Brit milah claimed that the foreskin prevented semen from reaching the vagina and so should be done as a way to increase the nation's population.

The ceremony of Brit milah shalom is not officially approved of by the Reform or Reconstructionist rabbinical organizations, who make the recommendation that male infants should be circumcised, though the issue of converts remains controversial and circumcision of converts is not mandatory in either movement.