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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' (also spelled as '''''priah''''') is a Hebrew word (Hebrew: פריעה) that means ''uncovering''.<ref>{{REFweb

}}</ref> Periah is the name given to the second part of the [[Jewish circumcision|Jewish ritual circumcision ]] procedure. {{WikipediaQuote |URL=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brit_milah#Uncovering,_priah |title=Uncovering, priah}}<blockquote>The main goal of "priah" (also known as "bris periah"), is to remove as much of the inner layer of the [[foreskin]] as possible and prevent the movement of the [[shaft skin]], what creates the look and function of what is known as a "low and tight" [[circumcision]].<ref name=":5">{{REFweb |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140515075416/http://www.circlist.com/styles/page3.html |archived=yes |title=Styles – Judaism and Islam |publisher=Circlist |date=2014-03-07 |accessdate=2023-08-23}}</ref> According to Rabbinic interpretation of traditional Jewish sources,<ref>{{REFbook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SF6fbjNe0yYC&q=peri'ah |title=Marked in Your Flesh: Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America |isbn=978-0-19-517674-2 |last=Glick |first=Leonard B. |init=LB |author-link=Leonard B. Glick |date=2005-06-30 |pages=46–7 |quote=the rabbis go on to dedicate all of chapter 19 to circumcision .. ''milah'', ''peri'ah'', and ''metsitsah''. This is the first text specifying peri'ah as an absolute requirement. The same chapter is where we first find mention of the warning that leaving even "shreds" of foreskin renders the procedure "invalid." Note: Section 19.2 from Moed tractate Shabbat (Talmud) is quoted)}}</ref> the 'priah' has been performed as part of the Jewish circumcision since the Israelites first inhabited the Land of Israel.<ref>{{REFbook |title=Talmud Bavli Tractate Yebamoth |chapter=71b |last=Rabbah b. Isaac in the name of Rab |quote=The commandment of uncovering the corona at circumcision was not given to Abraham; for it is said, At that time the Lord said unto Joshua: 'Make thee knives of flint etc.' But is it not possible [that this applied to] those who were not previously circumcised; for it is written, For all the people that came out were circumcised, but all the people that were born etc.? — If so, why the expression. 'Again!' Consequently it must apply to the uncovering of the corona.}}</ref></blockquote>