Periah
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Periah (also spelled as priah) is a Hebrew word (Hebrew: פריעה) that means uncovering.[1] Periah is the name given to the second part of the Jewish ritual circumcision procedure.
(The following text or part of it is quoted from the free Wikipedia article Uncovering, priah
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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.[2]
According to Rabbinic interpretation of traditional Jewish sources,[3] the 'priah' has been performed as part of the Jewish circumcision since the Israelites first inhabited the Land of Israel.[4]
References
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(21 October 2022). periah
, Wiktionary. Retrieved 22 August 2023. - ↑ (7 March 2014).
Styles – Judaism and Islam
(archive URL), Circlist. Retrieved 23 August 2023. - ↑
Glick LB: Marked in Your Flesh: Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America. Pp. 46–7. ISBN 978-0-19-517674-2.
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. - ↑ Rabbah b. Isaac in the name of Rab:
71b
, in: Talmud Bavli Tractate Yebamoth.
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.
