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The '''''brit milah''''' (Hebrew: בְּרִית מִילָה; Ashkenazi pronunciation: bʁis ˈmilə, "covenant original Biblical circumcision of [[circumcision]]"; Yiddish pronunciation: Abraham''bris'' (bʀɪs)) is s time was a Jewish religious male relatively minor ritual circumcision ceremony performed by a ''procedure in which only the redundant end of the [[mohelforeskin]]'' on extending beyond the eighth day tip of a male infant's life, as required by the [[Abrahamic covenantglans]]was removed. The ''brit milah'' This was called "Milah". It is followed by a celebratory mealfrom this term that the Jewish Religious Covenant circumcision ritual Bris Milah or Brith Milah got its name.<ref name="peron2000">{{REFjournal |last=Peron |init=JE |author-link=James Peron |url=https://cirp.org/library/history/peron2/ |title=Circumcision: then and now |journal=Many Blessings |date=2000 |season=Spring |volume=III |issue= |pages=41-2 |accessdate=2023-08-25}}</ref>

Medical science has identified several risks associated with Brit Milah. Brit Milah is a surgical operation and, like all surgical operations, has the risks of [[infection]], [[bleeding]], and a surgical misadventure, up to and including loss of the [[penis]] and [[death]].

Professor [[L. Emmett Holt]] (1913) reported 41 cases of tuberculosis in ritually [[circumcised ]] boys who had been infected by tubercular [[Mohel| mohels]], of whom 16 had died at the time of writing.<ref>{{REFjournal

== Social developments ==Jewish families increasingly are questioning the practice of male circumcision. The Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, reported that many Jewish families are rejecting ritual circumcision.<ref name="ahituv2021">{{REFnews |title=Even in Israel, More and More Parents Choose Not to Circumcise Their Sons |url=https://www.haaretz.com/even-in-israel-more-and-more-parents-choose-not-to-circumcise-1.5178506 |last=Ahituv |first=Netta |coauthors= |publisher=Haaretz |website= |date=2021-06-14 |accessdate=2023-12-27 |quote=The survey also found that nearly a third of the parents would prefer to forgo circumcision but nevertheless have it done for social reasons ‏(16.6 percent‏), health reasons ‏(10.4 percent‏) and because it is important for the grandparents ‏(2.1 percent‏).}}</ref> In the [[United States]], a new organization, [[Bruchim]], seeks to make non-circumcision acceptable in synagogues.==Video==<b>Jewish Circumcision Ritual and Jews Who Say No</b><youtube>dZy5lbWb9Xgv=INy_JH6lzHI</youtube>