Brit milah. The brit milah (Hebrew: ×Ö°Ö¼×¨Ö´××ª ×Ö´××Ö¸×â, pronounced; Ashkenazi pronunciation:, covenant of circumcision; Yiddish pronunciation: bris ) is a Jewish religious male circumcision ceremony performed by a mohel (circumciser) on the eighth day of a male infant's life.
An example of a 1930 Soundex Card. Photo courtesy of the National Archives. The Soundex is a coded surname index (using the first letter of the last name and three digits) based on the way a name sounds rather than the way it's spelled. Surnames that sound the same but are spelled differently - such as Smith and Smyth - have the same code and are filed together.
To use the Soundex index, you must first create the code for your surname. Each Soundex code consists of one letter and three numbers, such as G616, no matter how long the name is. The letter is always the first letter of the surname.