what is the purpose of brit milah ceremony
H. The brit milah (Hebrew: ×Ö°Ö¼×¨Ö´××ª ×Ö´××Ö¸× â, [bÊit miËla] ; Ashkenazi pronunciation: [bÊis ËmilÉ] , covenant of circumcision ; Yiddish pronunciation: bris [bÊÉªs]) is a Jewish religious male circumcision ceremony performed by a mohel on the eighth day of a male infant's life. Milah L'shem giur is a Circumcision for the purpose of conversion. In Orthodox Judaism, this procedure is usually done by adoptive parents for adopted boys who are being converted as part of the adoption or by families with young children converting together.