brit milah

Jewish religious male circumcision ceremony performed by a mohel on the eighth day of a male infant's life
Event occurrence Q848599
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Summary

brit milah is an occurrence[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of occurrence entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,842 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • brit milah's religion is recorded as Judaism[3].
  • brit milah's instance of is recorded as occurrence[4].
  • brit milah is a type of religious male circumcision[5].
  • brit milah is a type of religious ceremony[6].
  • brit milah is a type of naming ceremony[7].
  • brit milah's Commons category is recorded as Brit milah[8].
  • brit milah's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Brit milah[9].
  • brit milah's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[10].
  • brit milah's partially coincident with is recorded as circumcision controversy in early Christianity[11].
  • brit milah's partially coincident with is recorded as circumcision in Islam[12].
  • brit milah's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://judaism.stackexchange.com/tags/brit-milah[13].
  • brit milah's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'he', 'text': 'בְּרִית מִילָה\u200e'}[14].
  • brit milah's practiced by is recorded as mohel[15].

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Context

brit milah's instance of is recorded as occurrence[4].

Why It Matters

brit milah ranks in the top 1% of occurrence entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,842 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 59 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). brit milah. Retrieved October 14, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/brit-milah
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  1. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Partially coincident with → circumcision controversy in early Christianity, circumcision in Islam
    Instance of → occurrence
    Practiced by → mohel
    Subclass of → —
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007283269105171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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