דיא װײבּער װאס האבּין אײן שׁװערין מזל צו קינדר זאלין דיא תחנה זאגין | Women who Have Bad Luck with Children Should Recite this Tkhine (1910)

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Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), Baruch Jean Thaler and Unknown Author(s)

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תחינות tkhines, תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Yiddish vernacular prayer, prayers for mothers, prayers concerning children, child mortality, childhood illness, Prayers of Primary Caregivers, 20th century C.E.

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Source (Yiddish)

Translation (English)

איך קוּם צוּא דיר בּעטין דוּא זאָלסט בּאלד פוּן מיר ליבּער גאָט
אָפּ טאָן דעם צער װאָס איךְ טראָג אױף מײַן הארצין,
װעגין װָס איך האָבּ אשװערין מַזֶל צוּ מײַנע קינדר,
איך בּעט דיך ליבּער הער גאָט,
טוּא צוּא מיר אזױ װיא אײן פאָטער צוּ א קינד,
אוּנ טוּא װײַטער פוּן מיר אָפּ דײַן צאָרין,

I come pleading to You, Beloved God,
that You rid me of this pain that I carry in my heart,
of having bad luck with my children.
I beseech You, Beloved Lord God:
do to me like a father [would] to his children,
and continue ridding me of Your wrath.

דיא קינדער װאָס איך האָבּ לאָזין מיר אלע לעבּין
אוּנ קײַן קינד זאָל ניט שטארבּין,
אוּנ מיר זאָלין זוֺכֶה זײַן זײא צוּא דר ציען לְתּוֺרָה
וּלְחוּפָּה
וּלְמַעֲשִׂים טוֺבִים מיט יִרְאַת שָׁמַיִם,
אָמֵן וְאָמֵן׃

The children I have, let them all live,
and not one child die.
And may we merit to raise them to [follow] Torah,
to [the wedding] Khupe,
and to [a life of] good deeds with fear of Heaven —
Amen and Amen!

“Women who Have Bad Luck with Children Should Recite this Tkhine” by an unknown author is a faithful transcription of the tkhine published in Rokhl m’vakoh al boneho (Raḥel Weeps for her Children), Vilna, 1910. I have transcribed it without any changes from The Merit of Our Mothers בזכות אמהות A Bilingual Anthology of Jewish Women’s Prayers, compiled by Rabbi Tracy Guren Klirs, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1992. shgiyot mi yavin, ministarot nakeni. English translation by Baruch Jean Thaler. (Thank you!)

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“דיא װײבּער װאס האבּין אײן שׁװערין מזל צו קינדר זאלין דיא תחנה זאגין | Women who Have Bad Luck with Children Should Recite this Tkhine (1910)” is shared through the Open Siddur Project with a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International copyleft license.

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription)

Aharon Varady (M.A.J.Ed./JTSA Davidson) is a volunteer transcriber for the Open Siddur Project. If you find any mistakes in his transcriptions, please let him know. Shgiyot mi yavin; Ministarot naqeni שְׁגִיאוֹת מִי־יָבִין; מִנִּסְתָּרוֹת נַקֵּנִי "Who can know all one's flaws? From hidden errors, correct me" (Psalms 19:13). If you'd like to directly support his work, please consider donating via his Patreon account. (Varady also translates prayers and contributes his own original work besides serving as the primary shammes of the Open Siddur Project and its website, opensiddur.org.)

Baruch Jean Thaler

Baruch (B.J.) Thaler received his B.R.S. from United Lubavitch Yeshivah Tomchei Temimim (Morristown); Smichah (Rabbinical Ordination) from Central Yeshivah Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch (770); B.A. (Eng. Lit./Creative Writing) & M.F.A. (Film) from Columbia University. Baruch grew up Chabad in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, speaking Yiddish. Later, he worked for the Folkbeine Yiddish Theater and the New Yiddish Repertory, translating and acting in stage classics. He also worked on Yiddish translation for the Milken American Jewish Music Archives and others, and was a writer-editor for the Yiddish “Algemeiner Journal” and film-editor for "The Forward." His Hebrew translation projects include “The New American Haggadah,” the works of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, and of other Hasidic-Kabbalistic masters. Film credits include: “Projecting Freedom,” “Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish,” “Punk Jews”; he also filmed Yiddish legends Mine Bern and Mike Burstyn. He has spent some time organic farming. Still a Shliach (outreach “rabbi”) in heart - Baruch coordinated a troubadouring tribe of kindred spirits, first called “Home of HoWL” (Holy Wow Love) and more recently as Nitzotzot, who are creating new exciting ways to reexperience the traditions and rituals of yore, bridging heimish hasidism with homie hipsterdom. When the spirit is right, Baruch comes up with a niggun or two -- especially if it will help enhance davvening with kavvanah...

Unknown Author(s)

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