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Brit Milah & Simḥat Bat

This is an archive of prayers offered at the primary life cycle ritual for infants.

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שירת הים | Shirat haYam, recitation for a day with a circumcision according to Seder Avodat Yisrael (1868)

According to Isaac Seligman Baer’s famed Seder Avodat Yisrael, one of the first scholarly siddurim critical editions ever published, there was a custom that on the day of a circumcision, the P’sukei d-Zimra reading of Shirat haYam along with a portion of its introduction would be recited aloud as a call and response by the mohel (circumcizer) and sandaḳ (godfather). Baer’s division of the verses (from Seder Avodat Yisrael, pp. 72-74) is included here, along with a new translation. . . .

Categories: Brit Milah & Simḥat Bat, Shirat ha-Yam

Tags: Atah Hu, אז ישיר Az Yashir, ברית brit, brit milah, circumcision, Nusaḥ Ashkenaz, שירת הים Shirat haYam

Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Unknown Author(s)

Am Tage der Beschneidung | On the day of circumcision, a teḥinah by Anna Lachmann (1907)

“Am Tage der Beschneidung” by Anna Lachmann can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), pages 404-405. . . .

Categories: Brit Milah & Simḥat Bat

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., ברית brit, brit milah, circumcision, German vernacular prayer, infants, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German

Contributor(s): Anna Lachmann and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Zekher Milah, a different tack on Brit milah & Brit banot by Rabbi Arthur Waskow

For a number of reasons, some medical, some psychological, some spiritual, some communal-traditional, I support and urge male circumcision. When couples have come to me and despite my advice are adamant in refusing to do it with a boy-child, AND/OR if they ask my advice about a brit/ covenant ceremony for a girl — I urge them to follow what I’ve proposed below. . . .

Categories: Brit Milah & Simḥat Bat

Tags: ברית brit, Pnai Or, Renewal

Contributor(s): Arthur Waskow and the Shalom Center

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Brit Mila. This illustration comes from f. 5r of Sefer Ot haBrit, an 1824 gift from a certain Jonah Quo, rabbi, to Ezekiel Treich, mohel of Lipník nad Bečvou.

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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו "May the pleasantness of אדֹני our elo’ah be upon us; may our handiwork be established for us — our handiwork, may it be established." –Psalms 90:17

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